ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,876, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
"Behavioral change promotion device" was invented by Yukimasa Kaneda (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Gentarou Katayama (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Hiroshi Kawakami (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A behavioral change promotion device includes a learning unit configured to build a prediction model used for estimating a risk by performing learning with learning user information and risk information being associated with each other and build a causal model used for estimating a risk causal effect by performing learning with information relating to a risk factor...