ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,789, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Interactive cost corrections with natural language feedback" was invented by Balakumar Sundaralingam (Seattle), Pratyusha Sharma (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher Jason Paxton (Pittsburgh), Valts Blukis (New York), Tucker Hermans (Salt Lake City) and Dieter Fox (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches presented herein provide for a framework to integrate human provided feedback in natural language to update a robot planning cost or value. The natural language feedback may be modeled as a cost or value associated with completing a task assigned to th...