US Patent Issued to Hitachi on April 15 for "Programming aiding method in a visual programming interface" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,407, issued on April 15, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Programming aiding method in a visual programming interface" was invented by Tatsuya Hasebe (Tokyo), Erika Katayama (Tokyo) and Makoto Onodera (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programming aiding apparatus that includes a visual program storage unit performs a programming aiding method. In the apparatus, a training data generating unit edits the visual program. A graph learning unit trains a graph learning model that receives a feature of a node and a connection of the node in the visual program as an input, among the input data, and outputs a likelihood of a featur...