ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,696, issued on June 24, was assigned to OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, Japan).
"Fluctuating oscillator and robot" was invented by Teruo Kanki (Osaka, Japan) and Yasushi Hotta (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluctuating oscillator includes: a processor including a digital circuit, and the processor includes a random variable generation unit that generates a random variable, a lookup table that stores a waveform signal in advance, a computation unit that imparts fluctuation to the waveform signal based on the waveform signal read from the lookup table, the random variable generated by the random variable generation unit, and a...