ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,303, issued on July 15, was assigned to Numenta Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Displacement processor for inferencing and learning based on sensorimotor input data" was invented by Jeffrey Charles Hawkins (Atherton, Calif.) and Marcus Anthony Lewis (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are apparatus and methods for performing inference into the identity of an object. For an object of a plurality of objects, the apparatus receives feature-location information identifying a feature at first location on a first object of the plurality and a feature at a second location on a second object of the plurality. The app...