ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,405, issued on Jan. 27.

"Methods and systems for neural and cognitive processing" was invented by Lee J. Scheffler (West Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a system for creating, modifying, deploying and running intelligent systems by combining and customizing the function and operation of reusable component modules arranged into neural processing graphs which direct the flow of signals among the modules, analogous in part to biological brain structure and operation as compositions of variations on functional components and subassemblies."

The patent was filed on April 10, 2023, under Application No. 18/...