US Patent Issued to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology on April 29 for "Inferencer, inference method and inference program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,028, issued on April 29, was assigned to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Koganei, Japan).

"Inferencer, inference method and inference program" was invented by Kehai Chen (Koganei, Japan), Rui Wang (Koganei, Japan), Masao Uchiyama (Koganei, Japan) and Eiichiro Sumita (Koganei, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improvement is made in performance of a trained neural network that uses positional information indicating a position at which each token included in an input sequence is present in the input sequence. An inferencer includes a first generation unit that generates an intermediate sentence repres...