US Patent Issued to INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION RESEARCH ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS on March 3 for "Sampling device and sampling method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,598, issued on March 3, was assigned to INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION RESEARCH ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS (Tokyo).

"Sampling device and sampling method" was invented by Ichiro Hasuo (Tokyo), Yuichiro Oyabu (Tokyo), Clovis Eberhart (Tokyo), Kohei Suenaga (Tokyo), Kenta Cho (Tokyo) and Shinya Katsumata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sampling device includes a memory and a processor configured to execute selecting a control flow corresponding to each branch in a probabilistic program; optimizing the program by applying predetermined transformation rules to the program of the selected control flow ...