Assignee profile:

Preferred Networks, Inc.

City:

Tokyo

Country:

Japan

Published Applications:

108

Last publication date:

2026-04-30

Patent Grants:

74

Last grant date:

2026-06-30

Top Inventors for applications by Preferred Networks, Inc.

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Recent patent applications by Preferred Networks, Inc.

Preferred Networks, Inc. based in Tokyo, JP has been assigned the rights to these inventions. The list includes both Pending Applications and Patent Grants:

#1 | 2026-04-30
US20260122138A1
Electricity

DEVICE, PROGRAM, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING LEARNED MODELS

#2 | 2026-02-12
US20260044483A1
Physics

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

#3 | 2026-02-12
US20260044126A1
Physics

CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM

#4 | 2025-11-20
US20250355872A1
Physics

DEVICE, METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

#5 | 2025-10-23
US20250329421A1
Physics

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM

#6 | 2025-08-28
US20250272564A1
Physics

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

#7 | 2025-08-28
US20250272462A1
Physics

DETERMINATION DEVICE AND CALCULATION METHOD

#8 | 2025-08-21
US20250262759A1
Performing operations; transporting

INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NONVOLATILE STORAGE MEDIUM CAPABLE OF BEING READ BY COMPUTER THAT STORES INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM

#9 | 2025-06-19
US20250201357A1
Physics

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND METHOD

#10 | 2025-01-30
US20250036713A1
Physics

INFERENCE APPARATUS

#11 | 2025-01-16
US20250021724A1
Physics

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD

#12 | 2025-01-16
US20250021705A1
Physics

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

#13 | 2025-01-09
US20250014686A1
Physics

ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND ESTIMATION METHOD

#14 | 2024-11-21 ✅ Patent 12,669,919 granted on 2026-06-30
US20240385735A1
Physics

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

#15 | 2024-11-14
US20240378443A1
Physics

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

#16 | 2024-09-26 ✅ Patent 12,669,998 granted on 2026-06-30
US20240320007A1
Physics

DATA PROCESSING DEVICE

#17 | 2024-05-30 ✅ Patent 12,578,962 granted on 2026-03-17
US20240176616A1
Physics

PROCESSOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PROCESSOR

#18 | 2024-05-02 ✅ Patent 12,423,622 granted on 2025-09-23
US20240144092A1
Physics

GENERATIVE MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMS FOR DRUG DESIGN

#19 | 2024-04-18 ✅ Patent 12,537,874 granted on 2026-01-27
US20240129368A1
Electricity

SERVER DEVICE, LEARNED MODEL PROVIDING PROGRAM, LEARNED MODEL PROVIDING METHOD, AND LEARNED MODEL PROVIDING SYSTEM

#20 | 2024-04-18
US20240127533A1
Physics

INFERRING DEVICE, MODEL GENERATION METHOD, AND INFERRING METHOD

#21 | 2024-04-18
US20240127121A1
Physics

TRAINING DEVICE, METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND INFERRING DEVICE

#22 | 2024-04-04
US20240112764A1
Physics

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

#23 | 2024-02-08 ✅ Patent 12,255,149 granted on 2025-03-18
US20240047366A1
Electricity

Semiconductor device and data transferring method for semiconductor device

#24 | 2024-02-08 ✅ Patent 12,079,729 granted on 2024-09-03
US20240046104A1
Physics

Information processing device and information processing method

#25 | 2024-01-04
US20240005070A1
Physics

INFERENCE DEVICE AND INFERENCE METHOD

#26 | 2023-09-28 ✅ Patent 12,481,445 granted on 2025-11-25
US20230305729A1
Physics

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE

#27 | 2023-06-29
US20230206094A1
Physics

INFERRING DEVICE, INFERRING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

#28 | 2023-05-04 ✅ Patent 12,481,255 granted on 2025-11-25
US20230138268A1
Physics

CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM

#29 | 2023-04-27 ✅ Patent 12,073,200 granted on 2024-08-27
US20230131430A1
Physics

Compiler device, instruction generation method, program, compiling method, and compiler program

#30 | 2023-04-27 ✅ Patent 12,367,025 granted on 2025-07-22
US20230129676A1
Physics

COMPILER, GENERATION METHOD, CHIP, AND EXECUTION METHOD

#31 | 2023-04-27 ✅ Patent 12,430,129 granted on 2025-09-30
US20230126594A1
Physics

INSTRUCTION GENERATING METHOD, ARITHMETIC PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INSTRUCTION GENERATING DEVICE

#32 | 2023-04-13
US20230112275A1
Physics

INFERRING DEVICE, INFERRING METHOD, STRUCTURAL FORMULA, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

#33 | 2023-04-13 ✅ Patent 11,915,146 granted on 2024-02-27
US20230111538A1
Physics

Information processing device and information processing method

#34 | 2023-03-23 ✅ Patent 12,020,376 granted on 2024-06-25
US20230088773A1
Physics

Method of generating three-dimensional model, training data, machine learning model, and system

#35 | 2022-12-29
US20220414473A1
Physics

LEARNING DEVICE UNIT

#36 | 2022-10-06
US20220314432A1
Performing operations; transporting

INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NONVOLATILE STORAGE MEDIUM CAPABLE OF BEING READ BY COMPUTER THAT STORES INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM

#37 | 2022-09-22 ✅ Patent 12,155,400 granted on 2024-11-26
US20220302926A1
Electricity

Data compression method, data compression apparatus, data decompression method, data decompression apparatus and data storage system

#38 | 2022-09-22
US20220301239A1
Physics

AUTOMATIC COLORING OF LINE DRAWING

#39 | 2022-09-08
US20220286512A1
Electricity

SERVER DEVICE, LEARNED MODEL PROVIDING PROGRAM, LEARNED MODEL PROVIDING METHOD, AND LEARNED MODEL PROVIDING SYSTEM

#40 | 2022-07-28 ✅ Patent 11,874,723 granted on 2024-01-16
US20220237060A1
Physics

Abnormality detection system, abnormality detection method, abnormality detection program, and method for generating learned model

#41 | 2022-07-21 ✅ Patent 12,361,695 granted on 2025-07-15
US20220230025A1
Physics

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

#42 | 2022-06-30
US20220207370A1
Physics

INFERRING DEVICE, TRAINING DEVICE, INFERRING METHOD, AND TRAINING METHOD

#43 | 2022-06-02
US20220172801A1
Physics

Training Device, Disease Affection Determination Device, Classification Device, Machine Learning Method, and Classification Method

#44 | 2022-05-12 ✅ Patent 12,066,797 granted on 2024-08-20
US20220146993A1
Physics

Fault prediction method and fault prediction system for predecting a fault of a machine

#45 | 2022-04-14
US20220113724A1
Physics

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, ROBOT SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

#46 | 2022-03-31 ✅ Patent 12,430,147 granted on 2025-09-30
US20220100531A1
Physics

HYPERPARAMETER TUNING METHOD, PROGRAM TRIAL SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

#47 | 2022-02-10 ✅ Patent 12,530,577 granted on 2026-01-20
US20220044121A1
Physics

TRAINING DEVICE, INFERRING DEVICE, TRAINING METHOD, INFERRING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

#48 | 2022-02-03 ✅ Patent 12,142,262 granted on 2024-11-12
US20220036885A1
Physics

Segment detecting device, segment detecting method, and model generating method

#49 | 2022-01-20 ✅ Patent 12,393,473 granted on 2025-08-19
US20220019491A1
Physics

METHOD OF DETERMINING SPLIT SCHEME, DETERMINING DEVICE, AND COMPUTING SYSTEM

#50 | 2021-12-30 ✅ Patent 12,327,114 granted on 2025-06-10
US20210406010A1
Physics

PROCESSOR AND CONTROL METHOD FOR PROCESSOR

#51 | 2021-12-23 ✅ Patent 12,182,911 granted on 2024-12-31
US20210398336A1
Physics

Image generation method, image generation apparatus, and image generation system

#52 | 2021-12-09 ✅ Patent 12,051,412 granted on 2024-07-30
US20210383808A1
Physics

Control device, system, and control method

#53 | 2021-09-16
US20210287073A1
Physics

IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, AND IMAGE GENERATION PROGRAM

#54 | 2021-09-09 ✅ Patent 11,565,407 granted on 2023-01-31
US20210276182A1
Performing operations; transporting

Learning device, learning method, learning model, detection device and grasping system

#55 | 2021-08-05 ✅ Patent 11,915,344 granted on 2024-02-27
US20210241503A1
Physics

Method and apparatus for automatic line drawing coloring and graphical user interface thereof

#56 | 2021-07-22 ✅ Patent 11,551,419 granted on 2023-01-10
US20210225078A1
Physics

Method of generating three-dimensional model, training data, machine learning model, and system

#57 | 2021-07-08 ✅ Patent 11,922,307 granted on 2024-03-05
US20210209413A1
Physics

Learning device, inference device, and learned model

#58 | 2021-06-17 ✅ Patent 12,033,311 granted on 2024-07-09
US20210183051A1
Physics

Learning device, inference device, learning model generation method, and inference method

#59 | 2021-05-20
US20210151128A1
Physics

Learning Method, Mixing Ratio Prediction Method, and Prediction Device

#60 | 2021-05-20 ✅ Patent 12,154,031 granted on 2024-11-26
US20210150353A1
Physics

Information processing system, model generation processing system, and information processing method

#61 | 2021-04-15 ✅ Patent 12,162,150 granted on 2024-12-10
US20210107144A1
Performing operations; transporting

Learning method, learning apparatus, and learning system

#62 | 2021-03-11 ✅ Patent 11,443,485 granted on 2022-09-13
US20210074059A1
Physics

Rendering device, rendering method, 3D model generating method, neural network model generating method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

#63 | 2021-01-14 ✅ Patent 11,334,407 granted on 2022-05-17
US20210011791A1
Physics

Abnormality detection system, abnormality detection method, abnormality detection program, and method for generating learned model

#64 | 2021-01-07 ✅ Patent 11,904,469 granted on 2024-02-20
US20210001482A1
Performing operations; transporting

Machine learning device, robot controller, robot system, and machine learning method for learning action pattern of human

#65 | 2020-12-10 ✅ Patent 11,900,225 granted on 2024-02-13
US20200387831A1
Physics

Generating information regarding chemical compound based on latent representation

#66 | 2020-12-10 ✅ Patent 11,590,650 granted on 2023-02-28
US20200384640A1
Performing operations; transporting

Generation method for training dataset, model generation method, training data generation apparatus, inference apparatus, robotic controller, model training method and robot

#67 | 2020-11-19 ✅ Patent 11,188,305 granted on 2021-11-30
US20200364031A1
Physics

Computation device having a multiplexer and several multipliers and computation system

#68 | 2020-10-22 ✅ Patent 11,387,844 granted on 2022-07-12
US20200336152A1
Electricity

Data compression method, data compression apparatus, data decompression method, data decompression apparatus and data storage system

#69 | 2020-10-08 ✅ Patent 11,704,041 granted on 2023-07-18
US20200319814A1
Physics

Integrated circuit, semiconductor device and control method for semiconductor device

#70 | 2020-09-17 ✅ Patent 11,281,609 granted on 2022-03-22
US20200293473A1
Physics

Arithmetic processor and control method for arithmetic processor

#71 | 2020-08-27
US20200269420A1
Performing operations; transporting

KINEMATICS COMPUTATION LIBRARY IMPLEMENTATION SELECTING METHOD, MANIPULATOR CONTROLLING METHOD, KINEMATICS COMPUTATION PROGRAM SELECTING SYSTEM, AND MANIPULATOR CONTROL SYSTEM

#72 | 2020-08-13 ✅ Patent 11,712,808 granted on 2023-08-01
US20200254622A1
Performing operations; transporting

Machine learning device, robot system, and machine learning method for learning object picking operation

#73 | 2020-07-02 ✅ Patent 11,123,879 granted on 2021-09-21
US20200206950A1
Performing operations; transporting

Finger mechanism and humanoid hand incorporating same finger mechanism

#74 | 2020-06-11 ✅ Patent 11,824,009 granted on 2023-11-21
US20200185328A1
Electricity

Semiconductor device and data transferring method for semiconductor device

#75 | 2020-05-21 ✅ Patent 11,373,350 granted on 2022-06-28
US20200160575A1
Physics

Apparatus and method for editing data and program

#76 | 2020-05-14 ✅ Patent 11,119,765 granted on 2021-09-14
US20200150958A1
Physics

Processor with processing cores each including arithmetic unit array

#77 | 2020-04-30 ✅ Patent 11,593,663 granted on 2023-02-28
US20200134473A1
Physics

Data discriminator training method, data discriminator training apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and training method

#78 | 2020-04-30 ✅ Patent 11,590,658 granted on 2023-02-28
US20200130193A1
Performing operations; transporting

Tactile information estimation apparatus, tactile information estimation method, and program

#79 | 2020-04-23
US20200125958A1
Physics

TRAINING APPARATUS, TRAINING METHOD, INFERENCE APPARATUS, INFERENCE METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

#80 | 2020-04-16 ✅ Patent 11,158,092 granted on 2021-10-26
US20200118305A1
Physics

Automatic line drawing coloring program, automatic line drawing coloring apparatus, and graphical user interface program

#81 | 2020-01-16 ✅ Patent 12,106,232 granted on 2024-10-01
US20200019877A1
Physics

Cross-domain time series data conversion apparatus, methods, and systems

#82 | 2020-01-09 ✅ Patent 11,375,019 granted on 2022-06-28
US20200014761A1
Electricity

Server device, learned model providing program, learned model providing method, and learned model providing system

#83 | 2019-12-12 ✅ Patent 12,026,620 granted on 2024-07-02
US20190378018A1
Physics

Information processing device and information processing method

#84 | 2019-10-24
US20190325346A1
Physics

MACHINE LEARNING WITH MODEL FILTERING AND MODEL MIXING FOR EDGE DEVICES IN A HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENT

#85 | 2019-10-17
US20190317986A1
Physics

ANNOTATED TEXT DATA EXPANDING METHOD, ANNOTATED TEXT DATA EXPANDING COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, ANNOTATED TEXT DATA EXPANDING DEVICE, AND TEXT CLASSIFICATION MODEL TRAINING METHOD

#86 | 2019-08-29 ✅ Patent 11,275,345 granted on 2022-03-15
US20190265657A1
Physics

Machine learning Method and machine learning device for learning fault conditions, and fault prediction device and fault prediction system including the machine learning device

#87 | 2019-08-01 ✅ Patent 11,288,845 granted on 2022-03-29
US20190236813A1
Physics

Information processing apparatus for coloring an image, an information processing program for coloring an image, and an information processing method for coloring an image

#88 | 2019-07-25 ✅ Patent 10,807,235 granted on 2020-10-20
US20190224844A1
Performing operations; transporting

Machine learning device, robot controller, robot system, and machine learning method for learning action pattern of human

#89 | 2019-06-27 ✅ Patent 11,321,584 granted on 2022-05-03
US20190197353A1
Physics

Information processing device, information processing program, and information processing method

#90 | 2019-05-16 ✅ Patent 11,048,999 granted on 2021-06-29
US20190147321A1
Physics

Image generation method, image generation apparatus, and image generation program

#91 | 2019-05-16 ✅ Patent 11,087,159 granted on 2021-08-10
US20190147285A1
Physics

Object detection device, object detection method and non-transitory computer readable medium

#92 | 2019-03-28 ✅ Patent 11,845,194 granted on 2023-12-19
US20190091869A1
Performing operations; transporting

Robot system and workpiece picking method

#93 | 2019-03-21 ✅ Patent 11,386,587 granted on 2022-07-12
US20190087982A1
Physics

Automatic coloring of line drawing

#94 | 2019-03-21 ✅ Patent 11,568,270 granted on 2023-01-31
US20190087730A1
Physics

Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing improved generative adversarial network implementation program, improved generative adversarial network implementation apparatus, and learned model generation method

#95 | 2018-12-20 ✅ Patent 10,831,577 granted on 2020-11-10
US20180365089A1
Physics

Abnormality detection system, abnormality detection method, abnormality detection program, and method for generating learned model

#96 | 2018-12-06 ✅ Patent 11,521,070 granted on 2022-12-06
US20180349772A1
Physics

Information processing device and information processing method

#97 | 2018-11-29 ✅ Patent 11,010,932 granted on 2021-05-18
US20180342084A1
Physics

Method and apparatus for automatic line drawing coloring and graphical user interface thereof

#98 | 2018-09-06
US20180253665A1
Physics

MACHINE LEARNING HETEROGENEOUS EDGE DEVICE, METHOD, AND SYSTEM

#99 | 2018-08-02 ✅ Patent 10,652,167 granted on 2020-05-12
US20180219799A1
Electricity

Packet switch device and message exchange system

#100 | 2017-08-10 ✅ Patent 10,397,260 granted on 2019-08-27
US20170230396A1
Electricity

Network system

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