ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,022, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Learning device and robot control system" was invented by Hiroshi Ito (Tokyo), Hideyuki Ichiwara (Tokyo) and Kenjiro Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A learning device comprises: a learning unit that, using a model read from a model definition unit in accordance with a desired action of a robot, learns measurement information, captured images, and instruction information; a weight storage unit that stores a weight for a model learned by the learning unit; and an inference unit that, when instruction information is newly input, gives a weight read from the we...