ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,524, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo) and VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON (Wellington, New Zealand).

"Machine learning system, machine learning method, and program" was invented by Kenta Niwa (Tokyo) and Willem Bastiaan Kleijn (Wellington, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Machine learning techniques which allow machine learning to be performed even when a cost function is not a convex function are provided. A machine learning system includes a plurality of node portions which learn mapping that uses one common primal variable by machine learning based on their respective input data while sending and rec...