US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 20 for "Mapping method and apparatus" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,986, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Mapping method and apparatus" was invented by Owen Anderson (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Ian Poole (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to: acquire convolutional neural network (CNN) layers; and train a first mapping layer which connects to an input layer of the CNN layers, and a second mapping layer which connects to an output layer of the CNN layers, wherein the first mapping layer maps omics input data to N-dimensional data, and wherein the second mapping layer receives further N-dimensional dat...