US Patent Issued to Intel on March 11 for "Decision architecture for autonomous systems" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,852, issued on March 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Decision architecture for autonomous systems" was invented by Helen Adrienne Frances Gould (Portland, Ore.), Ignacio Javier Alvarez Martinez (Portland, Ore.) and David W. Browning (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods implement a decision architecture for autonomous systems. An autonomous system framework includes a safety ring configured to interface with safety features of an autonomous system; a security ring configured to provide authentication and verification services to transactions passed through the security rin...