US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 25 for "Mitigating effects of damage to neural networks" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,089, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Mitigating effects of damage to neural networks" was invented by Alexander S. Burch (Ballwin, Mo.) and Richard Anthony Effler (O'Fallon, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure mitigate effects of damage to neural networks (NNs) onboard a platform using a primary NN trained to perform a primary task and a repair agent trained to repair the primary NN. The repair agent performs the steps of detecting a degradation of the primary NN's ability to perform the primary task and performing a repair action to repair the primary NN. The primary task...