US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 9 for "Estimation device, estimation system, estimation method, and program recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,846, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Estimation device, estimation system, estimation method, and program recording medium" was invented by Chenhui Huang (Tokyo) and Kenichiro Fukushi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation device that includes an extraction unit that acquires sensor data from a sensor installed on footwear and extracts a gait feature quantity characteristic of walking in the footwear by using the sensor data, and an estimation unit that estimates a type of the footwear based on the gait feature quantity extracted by the extraction unit."

The patent was filed on Dec. 25, 2019, und...