ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,571, issued on Oct. 21.

"Method and system for rule-based augmentation of perceptions" was invented by Robert R. Price (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shiwali Mohan (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment can provide a system for augmenting perceptions of a machine sensing system. During operation, one or more sensors of the system can obtain sensory information associated with a physical system. The system can determine a state of a first component of the physical system based on the obtained sensory information; select, from a rule database, one or more logical rules associated with at least the first component; an...