ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,255, issued on July 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Learning apparatus, trained model generation method, classification apparatus, classification method, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Atsushi Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The learning apparatus for machine learning a score function to be used for two-class classification includes a score function optimization unit that updates, by setting, as an index, a total value of a value obtained by multiplying an AUC by a weight Lambda which is a positive real number and a value obtained by multiplying a pAUC by a weight (1-Lambda), a parameter of...