ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,976, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ATOM BEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"Persistent cognitive machine with multimodal processing capabilities" was invented by Brian Galvin (Silverdale, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for implementing persistent cognitive computation through geometric representation of thought in a dynamic latent manifold. The system encodes inputs into a curved space characterized by time-evolving metric tensors, compression pressure fields derived from Ricci curvature, and goal potential fields that shape attention flow. Cognition occurs through geodesic traversal of this manif...