ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,503, issued on March 4, was assigned to THIA ST Co. (Corvallis, Ore.).

"Copilot architecture: network of microservices including specialized machine learning tools" was invented by Elaine Kelsey (Corvallis, Ore.), Elliot Nicholas Robson (Seoul, South Korea), Sazzad Mahmud Nasir (Muncie, Ind.), Jeffrey Thomas Yarbro (Memphis, Tenn.), Robert Oscar Robson (Corvallis, Ore.), Lauren Elizabeth Egerton (New York), Spencer Thomas Ward (Kent, Wash.) and Brendan Michael Kelly (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are disclosed for implementing a copilot as a network of microservices including specialized large...