ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,821, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Novateur Research Solutions (Ashburn, Va.).
"Autonomous source localization" was invented by Khurram Hassan-Shafique (Ashburn, Va.), Zeeshan Rasheed (Ashburn, Va.), Alireza Zaeemzadeh (Ashburn, Va.), Emmanuel Tung (Ashburn, Va.) and Eric Chen (Ashburn, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous system for detecting, localizing, and potentially deactivating chemical threats or emissions using multiple sensing modalities and reinforcement learning techniques. The system includes visual sensors (e.g., RGB, RGBD, LIDAR), non-visual sensors (e.g., gas concentration, airflow, GPS, RADAR), a neu...