ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,165, issued on July 15, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Machine learning apparatus and machine learning method" was invented by Takumi Kubo (Tokyo) and Takanobu Inagaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning apparatus that learns an alarm factor in a motor drive device includes a state observation unit that obtains a feature amount as a state variable from the motor drive device and an alarm factor as label data, the alarm factor corresponding to the feature amount, and a learning unit that generates a learning model for inferring a new alarm factor corresponding to a new feature amount, from a d...