ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,265, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Method for neural network adaptation" was invented by Te Tang (Fremont, Calif.) and Tetsuaki Kato (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for adapting a feature extraction neural network to only identify environment independent features in an image. The method includes modifying weights within a dataset classifier neural network to improve the accuracy of the ability of the dataset classifier neural network to identify that training features images are from training images and test features images are from test images. The method also...