US Patent Issued to Preferred Networks on June 23 for "Inference apparatus, training apparatus, and inference method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,764, issued on June 23, was assigned to Preferred Networks Inc. (Tokyo-to, Japan).

"Inference apparatus, training apparatus, and inference method" was invented by Kento Kawaharazuka (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Toru Ogawa (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inference apparatus includes one or more memories; and one or more processors. The one or more processors configured to acquire a latent state from input data regarding a control target; acquire a future latent state from the latent state and control data; infer, from the future latent state, a time series of a task to be executed by the control target to be controlled bas...