ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,740, issued on July 7, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Training apparatus and training method" was invented by Kan Kuroda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a training apparatus that includes an acceptance unit that acquires language data obtained by describing elements constituting sentences in a replaceable form, and accepts designation of a method for expanding the language data and creating the sentences and a training unit that trains a model related to a natural language using the sentences created by expanding the language data based on the designation accepted by the acceptance unit."

The patent was ...