ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,515, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Autonomous machine control using neural networks" was invented by Alexander Conrad Lambert (Seattle), Adam Harper Fishman (Seattle), Dieter Fox (Seattle), Byron Boots (Seattle) and Fabio Tozeto Ramos (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to infer a sequence of actions to perform using one or more neural networks trained, at least in part, by optimizing a probability distribution function using a cost function, wherein the probability distribution represents different sequences of actions that can be performed. In at lea...