ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,181, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Recommendation system, configuration method therefor, and recommendation method" was invented by Yuki Kobayashi (Tokyo), Yutaro Nakamura (Tokyo) and Jumpei Honda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A problem to be addressed by the present invention is to rapidly extract information that satisfies a user, with respect to an inference result of an inference model. A preferred aspect of the present invention is a recommendation system comprising: an inference network that has an inference model, an input unit that inputs inference model inquiries, an output unit that outpu...