US Patent Issued to University of South Florida on Oct. 20 for "Autonomous control using hierarchical ensembles of autonomous decision systems" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,041, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.).

"Autonomous control using hierarchical ensembles of autonomous decision systems" was invented by Peter Joseph Jorgensen (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Hierarchical Ensembles of Autonomous Decision Systems (HEADS) system with a recursive ensemble weighting update is proposed. The system is built on fuzzy logic leading to an understandable and tractable logic design that leverages subject matter experts to design system operations. The hierarchical structure enables multi-layered logic for granular control and decisions incorporating infer...