US Patent Issued to Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. a subsidiary of The Boeing on July 29 for "Causing a robot to execute a mission using a behavior tree and a leaf node library" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,944, issued on July 29, was assigned to Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. a subsidiary of The Boeing Co. (Manassas, Va.).

"Causing a robot to execute a mission using a behavior tree and a leaf node library" was invented by Jeffery Saunders (Quincy, Mass.) and Benjamin C. Stringer (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for causing one or more robots to execute a mission. The method includes determining a behavior tree in which the mission is modeled, and causing the one or more robots to execute the mission using the behavior tree and a leaf node library. The behavior tree is expressed as a directed tree of nodes inclu...