ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,845, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Brian Haney (Las Vegas).

"Methods and device for autonomous missile control" was invented by Brian Haney (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for controlling a guided missile to account for environmental uncertainties and maintain optimal mission performance and minimize error in hitting a defined target anywhere on Earth. First, sensors collect data about the missile's environment, passing the information to storage in the missile's database and processor. Second, the missile's processor manipulates the database with a deep reinforcement learning a...