US Patent Issued to NTT on Aug. 25 for "Estimation device, estimation method and estimation program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,059, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Estimation device, estimation method and estimation program" was invented by Sotaro Maejima (Tokyo), Keisuke Tsunoda (Tokyo), Midori Kodama (Tokyo), Naoki Arai (Tokyo) and Kazuaki Obana (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation device collects sensor data representing a change in a load along a time series as a change in a voltage value from a sensor that generates a voltage when a load applied to an area changes, and estimates a matter related to a measurement target passing through a predetermined area by using sensor data collected from the sensor installed in th...