US Patent Issued to TDK on Aug. 11 for "Discriminator" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,532, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Discriminator" was invented by Kazuki Nakada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A discriminator includes: a filter bank having a response characteristic to a signal with a specific waveform and including a plurality of matched filters transforming a time-series input signal into a plurality of features in accordance with the response characteristic; a softmax function configured to accept the plurality of features and transform the plurality of features into a probability distribution; and a loss function configured to obtain a cross-entropy loss between the probability d...