ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,341, issued on March 4, was assigned to SHINKIN INFORMATION SERVICE LTD. (Tokyo) and NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Processing apparatus, processing method, and non-strategy medium" was invented by Eiichi Baba (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Chiba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including an acquisition unit (11) that acquires an image of a fill-in form including a plurality of first fill-in fields where a numerical value is filled in, and a second fill-in field where a sum total of the numerical values filled in a plurality of the first fill-in fields is filled in, an analysis unit (12) that...