ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,839, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Constraint based inference and machine learning system" was invented by Joshua G. Fadaie (Saint Louis, Mo.) and Richard Hanes (Ballwin, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including receiving a pre-determined constraint on user actions. A constraint vector is generated based on the pre-determined constraint. The constraint vector is input into a machine learning model. A first output is generated from the machine learning model by executing the machine learning model using the constraint vector as a first input to the machine learning model. The constra...