US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 18 for "Information processing apparatus, classification method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,196, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, classification method, and storage medium" was invented by Masafumi Oyamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to automatically classify data without using a classifier constructed by machine learning, an information processing apparatus (1) includes: a data acquiring section (11) for acquiring target data, which is data to be classified into one of a plurality of categories in a hierarchical structure; and a classifying section (12) for classifying the target data into one of the plurality of categories in accordance with (i) a ...