ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,456, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Aggregated data resolution enhancement device, aggregated data resolution enhancement method, and aggregated data resolution enhancement program" was invented by Yusuke Tanaka (Tokyo), Tomoharu Iwata (Tokyo), Takeshi Kurashima (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Toda (Tokyo) and Toshiyuki Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parameter estimation section 106 is configured to perform estimation, for aggregate data in which values are associated with respective regions obtained by subdividing a space and for a Gaussian process model that expresses a plurality of aggregate data of...