US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on May 13 for "Secret grouping apparatus, secret grouping system, secret grouping method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,047, issued on May 13, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Secret grouping apparatus, secret grouping system, secret grouping method, and program" was invented by Koki Hamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secret grouping apparatus which classifies a plurality of elements into one or more groups includes a processor configured to receive a target vector in which the plurality of elements are disposed so that elements belonging to a same group are continuous, a group information vector representing a last element in the group, and a classification destination vector representing a classification des...