ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,641, issued on April 21, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Alois De La Comble (Tokyo) and Ken Prepin (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a training data acquisition unit configured to acquire training data; an input channel setting unit configured to set a plurality of input channels for inputting different features, respectively, from the training data acquired by the training data acquisition unit to a learning model to be trained with the training data; and a training ...