ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,200, issued on July 15, was assigned to Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods enabling online one-shot learning and generalization by intelligent systems of task-relevant features and transfer to a cohort of intelligent systems" was invented by Matthias J. Scheutz (Boston) and Evan A. Krause (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent system, such as an autonomous robot agent, includes systems and methods to learn various aspects about a task in response to instructions received from a human instructor, to apply the instructed knowledge immediately during task performance following the ...