ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,638, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Learning assistance device, processing system, learning assistance method, and storage medium" was invented by Yuki Ueyama (Kyoto, Japan), Nobuyuki Sakatani (Otsu, Japan), Yasuaki Abe (Takatsuki, Japan), Kazuhiko Imatake (Osaka, Japan) and Takashi Fujii (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A learning assistance device according to the disclosure is designed to perform relearning for a processing part including a learning device that has already undergone learning for performing a prescribed output from a prescribed input, the learning assistance device inclu...