ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,682, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for adaptive spaces" was invented by Ruthie Lyle (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically adjusting the control settings of one or more adaptive systems in an adaptive space are disclosed. For example, the embodiments provide systems and methods for automatically controlling lighting, climate, and furniture layout in an adaptive space. The systems and methods utilize real-time sensed information from the adaptive space (as well as occupants within the adaptive space) to adaptively modify the livin...