ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,520, issued on July 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Identifying natural solutions to problems" was invented by Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Partho Ghosh (Kolkata, India) and Shailendra Moyal (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inventive concept provided for a method for identifying a natural solution to solve a problem. The method includes identifying the problem in environmental multimedia of an environment; identifying the natural solution to the identified problem and required capabilities thereof based on a mapping; and generating a machine-based solution bas...