ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,396, issued on June 30, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Learning processing device and learning processing method" was invented by Masayoshi Ishikawa (Tokyo), Masanori Ouchi (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Shindo (Tokyo), Yasutaka Toyoda (Tokyo) and Shinichi Shinoda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A learning processing device and method achieves learning of a lightweight model that is completed in a short amount of time. The learning processing device obtains a new, second learning model from an existing first learning model. An input unit acquires a first learning model generated in advance by learning a first learning dat...