ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,312, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Scenario aware dynamic code branching of self-evolving code" was invented by Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla (Visakhapatnam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Sowjanya Rao (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer technology for performing dynamic code branching of self-adapted code upon successful execution of a contextual scenario by artificial intelligence (AI) enabled edge device (for example, an autonomous vehicle or an industrial robotic device). predicting a second contextual scenario where the AI enable...