US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 15 for "Demand prediction device, demand prediction method, and medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,782, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Demand prediction device, demand prediction method, and medium" was invented by Akihito Kataoka (Tokyo), Yudai Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Riki Eto (Tokyo) and Natsumi Usui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A demand prediction device is a device predicting a demand quantity for a target product based on a prediction model, and the demand prediction device specifies a similar product to the target product, calculates a base demand quantity for the target product by using the prediction model weighted in accordance with the similar product and a feature of the target product, the...