ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,281, issued on July 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Neural network systems for abstract reasoning" was invented by Giovanni Cherubini (Rueschlikon, Switzerland), Hlynur Freyr Jonsson (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Evangelos Stavros Eleftheriou (Rueschlikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product to solve a cognitive task that includes learning abstract properties. One embodiment may comprise accessing datasets that characterize the abstract properties. The accessed datasets may then be inputted into a first neural network to g...