US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Oct. 27 for "Predicting the conjunction of events by approximate decomposition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,885, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Predicting the conjunction of events by approximate decomposition" was invented by Hsiu-Khuern Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Haiyan Wang (Fremont, Calif.) and Chetan Gupta (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations described herein are directed to systems and methods for predicting if a conjunction of multiple events will occur within a certain time. It relies on an approximate decomposition into subproblems and a search among the possible decompositions and hyperparameters for the best model. When the conjunction is rare, the method mitigates th...