ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,066, issued on May 13, was assigned to KEIO UNIVERSITY (Tokyo) and Motion Lib Inc. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Function generation apparatus, method for generating function, and storage medium" was invented by Kouhei Ohnishi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takahiro Mizoguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A function generation apparatus includes a function setter, a data string selector, and a matrix generator. The function setter sets a target function in an apparatus to be controlled. The data string selector selects, from among data strings indicating a plurality of combinations of parameters that can be reflected in control in the...