ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,020, issued on March 17, was assigned to Fiske Software LLC (San Francisco).
"Circuits, machines and systems that heal" was invented by Michael Stephen Fiske (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention pertains to machines, circuits, and programs that can heal, using a principle of self-modifiability. In some embodiments, a machine can self-modify its machine instructions when one or more instructions are missing or corrupted or malfunctioning. In some embodiments, a machine uses a meta instruction to heal its instructions. In some embodiments, the invention describes a flip-flop circuit that can heal its computatio...