ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,863, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Howso Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Computer-based reasoning system for operational situation control of controllable systems" was invented by Christopher James Hazard (Raleigh, N.C.) and Michael Vincent Capps (Raleigh, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for operational situation vehicle control, and include determining action and context data for one or more vehicle operations in one or more operational situations, training vehicle control rules for those operational situations, and using those vehicle control rules to control vehicles in compatible operational situations."
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