US Patent Issued to Numenta on July 21 for "Communication protocol for inference system" (British, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,605, issued on July 21, was assigned to Numenta Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Communication protocol for inference system" was invented by Jeffrey C. Hawkins (Atherton, Calif.), Subutai Ahmad (Palo Alto, Calif.), Viviane Clay (Mommenheim, Germany) and Niels Leadholm (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A common communication protocol (CCP) used across different components of an inference system that recognizes an object and its state, or affect changes in the state of the object to a targeted state, based on sensory input. One or more components may convert information they generate into a format compliant with the CCP...