US Patent Issued to BAE Systems on Sept. 9 for "Method and apparatus for controlling a communicatively isolated watercraft" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,500, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BAE Systems PLC (London).

"Method and apparatus for controlling a communicatively isolated watercraft" was invented by Lawrence Edward Clabburn (Barrow-in-Furness, Great Britain), Simon Phillip Newby (Barrow-in-Furness, Great Britain) and David Charles Alexander Ritchie (Barrow-in-Furness, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training a machine learning, ML, algorithm to control a watercraft is described. The watercraft is a submarine or a submersible submerged in water. The method is implemented, at least in part, by a computer, comprising a processor and a memory, aboard ...