ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,736, issued on July 7, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Machine learning method for predicting a sensory result" was invented by Keiko Matsumoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second device performs receiving an analysis result of analyzing a food sample by an analysis instrument, examining the analysis result to obtain an examination result, acquiring first information regarding whether the analysis result is made public or private and second information regarding whether the examination result is made public or private, storing the first information and the analysis result in association with each othe...