US Patent Issued to NEC on July 14 for "Food development assistance apparatus, food development assistance method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,407, issued on July 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Food development assistance apparatus, food development assistance method, and recording medium" was invented by Yoji Mori (Tokyo), Ayako Hoshino (Tokyo), Yuya Endo (Tokyo), Yuuki Watanabe (Tokyo) and Naruto Yajima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to suitably assist the development of a new food product, a food development assistance apparatus (1) includes: an accepting means (11) for accepting a request regarding development of a new food product; an inferring means (12) for inferring, based on the request and a learned model which has learned a relation betwe...