ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,636, issued on May 12, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Body fluid volume estimation device, body fluid volume estimation method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Yusuke Akamatsu (Tokyo), Yoshifumi Onishi (Tokyo) and Hideo Tsurushima (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body fluid volume estimation device includes a pre-training unit, a transfer learning unit, and an estimation unit. The pre-training unit performs pre-training by using, as supervised information, information indicating body fluid volumes of the multiple patients when face images of multiple patients are captured. The transfer...