ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,153, issued on March 18, was assigned to Gatik AI Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method and system for context-aware decision making of an autonomous agent" was invented by Gautam Narang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Apeksha Kumavat (Palo Alto, Calif.), Arjun Narang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kinh Tieu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Michael Smart (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Marko Ilievski (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for context-aware decision making of an autonomous agent includes a computing system having a context selector and a map. A method for context-aware decision making of an autonomous agent includes receiving a set of in...