ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,514, issued on July 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Classification of sequential data based on integrated likelihood ratio" was invented by Akinori Ebihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing device including: an acquisition unit that sequentially acquires a plurality of elements included in sequential data; a first calculation unit that calculates, for each of the plurality of elements, indicators each indicating which of a plurality of classes is appropriate for corresponding element to belong to, in consideration of two or more elements among the plurality of elements; a second calcula...