ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,053, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Adaptation system and adaptation method" was invented by Akihiro Katayama (Toyota, Japan), Shiro Yano (Tokyo) and Kenichiro Kumada (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry of an adaptation system executes a second process when a number of times of execution of a learning routine is greater than or equal to a specified number of times and less than a termination number of times. The second process performs a first trial and a second trial in each execution of the learning routine, and ends the learning routine by recording, in a s...