ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,107, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Third Wave Automation Inc. (Union City, Calif.).

"Continual proactive learning for autonomous robot agents" was invented by James Davidson (Alameda, Calif.), Julian Mason (Redwood City, Calif.) and Arshan Poursohi (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot agent (102) includes an electro-mechanical subsystem (202), a sensor subsystem (204) having one or more sensors, and a computer hardware subsystem (206) to execute one or more sets of executable instructions (212, 214, 216, 218, 220). The one or more sets of executable instructions manipulate the robot agent to predict an action t...