ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,241, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Machine learning device and recording medium" was invented by Yoshihisa Shinoda (Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Shigeki Nakayama (Gotemba, Japan), Koji Ide (Gotemba, Japan), Tomohiro Kaneko (Mishima, Japan), Hiroshi Oyagi (Kyoto, Japan), Masaki Ito (Toyota, Japan) and Yuki Takahashi (Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning device includes a processor which performs, when performing learning of a model with image data, the learning of the model while excluding the image data of an animal having a feature amount common...