ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,251, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Coating region learning device, coating region learning method, coating region prediction device, and coating region prediction method" was invented by Shinsaku Wakasugi (Hyogo, Japan), Takashi Yamade (Hyogo, Japan), Naoto Iwashita (Hyogo, Japan) and Shin Watanabe (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application area learning device, includes a learning unit configured to perform machine learning on a correlation between a feature value at least inside a contour to be extracted from an outline image of a shoe component and an application area of an adhesi...