ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,923, issued on June 17, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Case search method and case search system" was invented by Kentaro Morimoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide a case search method and a case search system for providing a case of an analysis device, preprocessing, etc., associated with a sample that a user, etc., wishes to analyze, with respect to an analysis case for a presented case, a search unit 29 interprets the semantic content contained in a search string input by a user, and retrieves, based on the interpretation result, an analysis case relating to a sample which coincides...