ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,349, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Validation of autoencoders that perform timestamp compression for printing system data" was invented by Ian Wilkins (Boulder, Colo.) and Farnaz HajiahmadiFoomani (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for validating an autoencoder for a printing system. In one embodiment, a system stores values associated with individual features at a printing system and further stores times indicating when the values were determined at the printing system. The system also operates an autoencoder to perform time-compression upon the values and th...