US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 1 for "Neuro-symbolic next state prediction based on multiple potential causes" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,802, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Neuro-symbolic next state prediction based on multiple potential causes" was invented by Akifumi Wachi (Tokyo), Ryosuke Kohita (Tokyo) and Daiki Kimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Next state prediction technology that performs the following computer based operations: receiving state information that includes information indicative of a current state of an environment; processing the state information to predict a future state of the environment, with the processing being performed by a hybrid computer system that includes both of th...