ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,180, issued on June 9, was assigned to AVATHON INC. (Austin, Texas).

"State prediction reliability modeling" was invented by Nkem Egboga (Austin, Texas), Abubakr Sheikh (Pflugerville, Texas), Kevin Gullikson (Pflugerville, Texas), James Robert Eskew (Austin, Texas) and Uche Ohafia (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing behavior model input data to a behavior model to generate behavior model output data and generating an initial state prediction based on the behavior model output data. The method also includes, based on the initial state prediction indicating a particular state, generating state predi...