ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,217, issued on March 17, was assigned to Gigaphoton Inc. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Training data creation method, machine learning method, consumable management device, and computer readable medium" was invented by Kunihiko Abe (Oyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A training data creation method according to an aspect of the present disclosure is used for machine learning of a learning model for predicting lifetime of a consumable of a laser device. The method includes acquiring first lifetime-related information including data of at least one lifetime-related parameter of the consumable recorded in association with each of numbers...