ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,221, issued on May 27, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Control method and information processing apparatus" was invented by Yuji Higuchi (Kawasaki, Japan), Toshiya Shimizu (Kawasaki, Japan) and Ikuya Morikawa (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage unit holds a classification model that calculates a confidence score from image data, and a transformation model that is a model for transforming a feature value having fewer dimensions than the image data into the image data and is created such that a set of feature values corresponding to a set of image data follows a probability distribution. A process...