US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 27 for "Answering cognitive queries from sensor input signals" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,846, issued on May 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Answering cognitive queries from sensor input signals" was invented by Giovanni Cherubini (Rueschlikon, Switzerland) and Evangelos Stavros Eleftheriou (Rueschlikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for answering a cognitive query from sensor input signals may be provided. The method comprises feeding sensor input signals to an input layer of an artificial neural network comprising a plurality of hidden neuron layers and an output neural layer, determining hidden layer output signals from each of the pl...