ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,336, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle evaluation system" was invented by Hideaki Bunazawa (Nagoya, Japan), Shintaro Mukogawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Rikako Zenibana (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle evaluation system includes processing circuitry and a memory device. The memory device stores data of a pretrained model. The pretrained model is a model trained by supervised learning to generate operation data from training sound data. The operation data is data indicating changes in operation information in a measurement operation pattern. The processing circuitry is con...