ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,161, issued on April 29, was assigned to D5AI LLC (Maitland, Fla.).

"Creating diverse neural networks with node tying" was invented by James K. Baker (Maitland, Fla.) and Bradley J. Baker (Berwyn, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for controlling a nodal network. The method includes estimating an effect on the objective caused by the existence or non-existence of a direct connection between a pair of nodes and changing a structure of the nodal network based at least in part on the estimate of the effect. A nodal network includes a strict partially ordered set, a weighted directed acyclic graph, an artificial neura...