ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,994, issued on July 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Satoshi Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus 4 includes: a transformation unit 423 configured to transform a plurality of tuples of feature vector data XV in a presentation space into a plurality of tuples of latent vector data ZV in a latent space; an extraction unit 423 configured to extract, based on the plurality of tuples of latent vector data, feature vector data having a shorter distance from query data DQ in the latent spac...