ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,369, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Document search method, document search system, program, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium" was invented by Tatsuya Okano (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shoko Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A similar document is retrieved in units of blocks of a document. Highly accurate document search is performed. A specific text block is searched for in a plurality of text blocks created by dividing each of a plurality of search target documents. A first search text block, which is a part of a search document, is pr...