US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 22 for "Inconsistency detection device, inconsistency detection method, and computer-readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,640, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Inconsistency detection device, inconsistency detection method, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Shiho Hirakawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The acceptance means 81 accepts input of a series of observed events. The deletion means 82 deletes, in a decision graph for determining a boolean value of the observed event based on a knowledge base in which the observed event is a node and transition relationship of each of the observed events is an edge, the edge indicating a transition to a negation side of the observed event from among the edges c...