ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,147, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Rule generation apparatus, rule generation method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing control program" was invented by Yuta Hatakeyama (Tokyo), Yuzuru Okajima (Tokyo) and Kunihiko Sadamasa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a rule generation apparatus, a rule generation unit generates a rule group for dividing a training example into a plurality of clusters related to target values using a rule base model so that a "first constraint" is satisfied. The training example includes at least one real example and at least one synthetic example. Each of the re...