US Patent Issued to Smart Information Flow Technologies on May 6 for "Computer architecture for plan recognition" (Minnesota, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,876, issued on May 6, was assigned to Smart Information Flow Technologies LLC (Minneapolis).

"Computer architecture for plan recognition" was invented by Christopher William Geib (Minneapolis), Scott Ehrlich Friedman (Minneapolis), Pavan Kantharaju (Medford, Mass.) and Robert Prescott Goldman (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing machine receives a plurality of observations. The computing machine generates an observation data structure. The computing machine extends, in accordance with the causal structures and hierarchical relationships, the observation data structure to include predicted states or predicted action...