ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,490, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, method and medium" was invented by Vivek Barsopia (Tokyo), Menandro Roxas (Tokyo) and Mitsuru Nakazawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device 1 includes: a feature area detection unit 28 that acquires, by inputting a target image showing a fastening part that is an inspected target to a machine learning model, a feature area based on an estimated coordinate that includes a feature point relating to reference indication added to the fastening part and relates to a position of the feature point and a distr...