ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,372, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method for training a mapping for outputting an abnormality determination variable for a specific component mounted on a vehicle" was invented by Koichi Okuda (Toyota, Japan), Atsushi Tabata (Okazaki, Japan) and Ken Imamura (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A training method includes: a simulation step outputting, by a simulator, a characteristic variable based on an input parameter set, the parameter set being input to the simulator and indicating that a specific component is presumed to have an abnormality in advance; and a training step updat...