US Patent Issued to The Boeing on June 10 for "Automated feature generation for sensor subset selection" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,195, issued on June 10, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Automated feature generation for sensor subset selection" was invented by Liessman Sturlaugson (St. Louis) and James M. Ethington (Saint Charles, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that includes accessing a multivariate time series of flight data for an aircraft, and iteratively performing runs of genetic programming on groups of the sensors. A population of computer programs is randomly generated from a selected group of the plurality of sensors, and primitive functions selected from a library of primitive functions. The population is iter...