ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,304, issued on May 6, was assigned to HRL LABORATORIES LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"Decision recommendation via causal feature display" was invented by Aruna Jammalamadaka (Camarillo, Calif.), Rajan Bhattacharyya (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Samuel D. Johnson (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Rashmi N. Sundareswara (Topanga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system for generating and displaying decision recommendations. The system receives historical observations and courses of action corresponding to the historical observations. A conditional density between the historical observations and the courses of action is estimated, and th...