ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,787, issued on May 20, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"State determination device, state determination method and recording medium" was invented by Nana Jumonji (Tokyo), Gaku Nakano (Tokyo), Chisato Sugawara (Tokyo) and Yosuke Kimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state determination device according to the present invention includes: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor performs operations. The operations including: combining output from a plurality of determination models for an input image of a road, the plurality of determination models each learned using training data in which at...