ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,459, issued on June 16, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Model generation device, sorting device, data generation device, model generation method, and non-transitory computer storage media" was invented by Tadashi Hyuga (Kyoto, Japan) and Mei Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data generation device according to the above-described aspect of the present invention: uses a trained encoder to acquire, in a feature space, two or more sample points corresponding to two or more training samples from among a plurality of training samples, and to derive the linear sum at which the total distance becomes the max...