ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,342, issued on June 23, was assigned to Amoeba Energy Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY (Sapporo, Japan).

"Solution search system, solution search method, and solution search program" was invented by Masashi Aono (Tokyo), Seiya Kasai (Sapporo, Japan), Kaori Ohkoda (Machida, Japan) and Shingo Fukuda (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solution-searching system encompasses an output adjustment unit having N signal adjustment circuits for converting provisional output-adjustment signals into final output-adjustment signals, 2N data generation units for generating binary data, 2N data con...