ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,213, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Composite symbolic and non-symbolic artificial intelligence system for advanced reasoning and automation" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.), Richard Kelley (Woodbridge, Va.), Jason Hopper (Halifax, Canada) and David Park (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite AI system and method for advanced reasoning and automation that integrates symbolic knowledge graphs and algorithms with non-symbolic, or connectionist, models such as neural embeddings. A hierarchical architecture enables dynamically distributed, cooperative reasoning through laypers...