US Patent Issued to Numenta on March 18 for "Location processor for inferencing and learning based on sensorimotor input data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,409, issued on March 18, was assigned to Numenta Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inference system performs inference, such as object recognition, based on sensory inputs generated by sensors and control information associated with the sensory inputs. The sensory inputs describe one or more features of the objects. The control information describes movement of the sensors or known locations of the sensors relative to a reference ...