ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,978, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to RAFAEL ADVANCED DEFENSE SYSTEMS LTD. (Haifa, Israel).

"Platform for multi-agent task planning of autonomous systems" was invented by Lior Eldar (Kibbutz Yifat, Israel), Dan Greenstein (Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel) and Eyal Keren (Nofit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for multi-agent mission planning comprises a) a mission generator (MG) configured to compute a set of Mission Agent Language (MAL) missions; b) a group of agents (TGPs), each capable of performing at least one MAL mission; and c) at least one Multi-Agent Planner (MAP) adapted to receive said set of MAL missions from said ...