ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,105, issued on May 20, was assigned to SMN Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus, method, and program for assisting creation of contents to be used in interventions, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Kei Tateno (Tokyo), Hayato Sakata (Tokyo) and Noriyuki Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing unit includes a contribution-degree calculation unit configured to calculate contribution degrees that indicate respective degrees by which a plurality of attribute items included as predetermined attributes of one target contribute to a predicted intervention effect, the calculating being performed on a basis of a...