ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,194, issued on Sept. 2.

"Devices, systems, and methods for machine consciousness" was invented by Jasmin Cosic (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the disclosure generally relate to devices, systems, applications, and/or objects of applications, and may be generally directed to artificial learning and/or use of artificial knowledge. Other aspects of the disclosure generally relate to consciousness, and may be generally directed to learning and/or implementing one or more purposes. One or more purposes may drive the use of artificial knowledge in implementing the one or more purposes. Therefore, in some aspects, a...