US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on April 22 for "Domain adaptation for simulated motor backlash" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,499, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Domain adaptation for simulated motor backlash" was invented by Sergey Bashkirov (Salida, Calif.) and Michael Taylor (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and computer program product for training a control input system involve taking an integral of an output value from a Motion Decision Neural Network for one or more movable joints to generate an integrated output value and comparing the integrated output value to a backlash threshold. A subsequent output value is generated using a machine learning algorithm that includ...