ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,774, issued on May 13, was assigned to Smart Information Flow Technologies LLC (Minneapolis).

"Computer architecture for identification of nonlinear control policies" was invented by Joseph B. Mueller (Champlin, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer generates historical time and velocity data for vehicles based on data from sensor(s) observing the vehicles. The computer determines, based on the historical time and velocity data, a control policy that controls movement of the vehicles. The control policy is represented as a weighted combination of a set of predefined policies. Determining the control policy comprises calcula...