ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,763, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy VA (Arlington, Va.).

"Meta-agent based adaptation in multi-agent systems for SOA system evaluation" was invented by Hesham Fouad (Arlington, Va.), Stephen Russell (Laurel, Md.) and Antonio Gilliam (Hopewell, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for addressing the complexity inherent in evaluating Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) systems by using meta-agent based adaptation in multi-agent systems. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a multi-agent based automat...