ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,584, issued on April 21, was assigned to AARU INC. (Winnetka, Ill.).

"Agent-based modeler using multimodal input" was invented by Edward Koh (Winnetka, Ill.), Cameron Fink (Winnetka, Ill.) and John Kessler (Litchfield, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for simulating multi-agent within a virtual world in response to generated hypotheses are disclosed herein. The system can generate a virtual world that includes a set of agents. The system can receive instructions that include a question, including a first query and a first input item, and a set of input traits, which can be used to instantiate a set of agents. ...