ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,468, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Shionogi & Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Program generation assisting system for assisting generation of program for analyzing clinical trial" was invented by Ryo Kiguchi (Osaka, Japan), Masakazu Fujiwara (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshitake Kitanishi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided to assist automation of programming for automatic generation of an analysis material prepared by analysis work in a clinical trial during pharmaceutical development. Using the format information, the layout information, and the image data of an image/table analysis plan, this program generation...