ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,163, issued on June 3, was assigned to DAICEL Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Prediction apparatus, prediction method, and program" was invented by Hiroshi Okamoto (Tokyo), Marina Takahashi (Tokyo), Shuji Shinohara (Tokyo), Shunji Mitsuyoshi (Tokyo), Masahiro Haitsuka (Tokyo), Hidetoshi Kozono (Tokyo) and Fumihiro Miyoshi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A regression model reflecting causality between variation of an explanatory variable and variation of a response variable is constructed. A prediction apparatus predicts characteristic values of a product by using process data obtained from a production facility. The prediction apparatus ...