ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,419, issued on June 30, was assigned to QYLUR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Network of intelligent machines" was invented by Alysia M. Sagi-Dolev (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Alon Zweig (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus in a network of apparatuses includes a first processing unit that includes a first object unit that receives an item, a first test unit that applies different types of tests to the item and takes measurements, a first sensor that receives the outcomes from the tests and generates output signals, a first computation unit that receives the output signals and processes the output s...