ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,477, issued on May 20, was assigned to TRANSTRON INC. (Yokohama, Japan) and KOGAKUIN UNIVERSITY (Tokyo).

"Control device, control method, and recording medium" was invented by Masatoshi Ogawa (Yokohama, Japan), Takuma Degawa (Yokohama, Japan), Masakazu Mukai (Shinjuku, Japan) and Shigeaki Kurita (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device calculates a first estimate value of a first monitored amount of a mobile object, from sensor information of a controlled object, using a transformed first model obtained by transformation of a first model having a multi-layered neural structure and activation functions of a ReL...