ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,217, issued on July 21, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and method for persistent cognitive machines using a digital thought architecture" was invented by Brian Galvin (Silverdale, Wash.) and Alan McCord (Forney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for implementing a Persistent Cognitive Machine (PCMs) that extends beyond the traditional prompt-response paradigm of artificial intelligence are disclosed. A PCM maintains persistent cognitive processes regardless of external interaction, stores and organizes thoughts in a thought cache, retrieves relevant thoughts based on curren...