ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,405, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Learning apparatus, estimation apparatus, data generation apparatus, learning method, and computer-readable storage medium storing a learning program" was invented by Yamato Okamoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Atsushi Hashimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A learning apparatus according to one or more embodiments executes, with respect to each learning data set, a first training step of training a second encoder and a second metadata identifier such that the identification result by the second metadata identifier matches the metadata, a second training step of train...