ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,140, issued on July 14, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Quantum mechanical Hamiltonian learning and temporal property prediction" was invented by Jens Strabo Hummelshoj (Millbrae, Calif.) and Santosh K. Suram (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning system for predicting a time dependent property of a material system includes a processor and a memory communicably coupled to the processor. Stored in the memory is an acquisition module and a machine learning module. The machine learning module includes instructions that, when ex...