ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,762, issued on April 1, was assigned to HRL LABORATORIES LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"Human machine teaching system for sequential task training" was invented by Myana Anderson (Minneapolis), Tiffany Hwu (San Diego), Steven W. Skorheim (North Hills, Calif.) and David J. Huber (Calabasas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system for improving machine operation performance. The system assigns and displays, on an interface having multiple interactive controls, a performance score for each skill of a sequential task in a simulation of operation of a machine. Based on the performance scores, one or more skills to improve with...