Patents by Inventor Shawn Moffit

Shawn Moffit has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Autonomous behavior generation for aircraft
    Patent number: 11150670
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for training a machine learning algorithm (MLA) to control a first aircraft in an environment that comprises the first aircraft and a second aircraft are described. Training of the MLA can include: the MLA determining a first-aircraft action for the first aircraft to take within the environment; sending the first-aircraft action from the MLA; after sending the first-aircraft action, receiving an observation of the environment and a reward signal at the MLA, the observation including information about the environment after the first aircraft has taken the first-aircraft action and the second aircraft has taken a second-aircraft action, the reward signal indicating a score of performance of the first-aircraft action based on dynamic and kinematic properties of the second aircraft; and updating the MLA based on the observation of the environment and the reward signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Deepak Khosla, Kevin R. Martin, Sean Soleyman, Ignacio M. Soriano, Michael A. Warren, Joshua G. Fadaie, Charles Tullock, Yang Chen, Shawn Moffit, Calvin Chung
  • Autonomous Behavior Generation for Aircraft
    Publication number: 20200379486
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for training a machine learning algorithm (MLA) to control a first aircraft in an environment that comprises the first aircraft and a second aircraft are described. Training of the MLA can include: the MLA determining a first-aircraft action for the first aircraft to take within the environment; sending the first-aircraft action from the MLA; after sending the first-aircraft action, receiving an observation of the environment and a reward signal at the MLA, the observation including information about the environment after the first aircraft has taken the first-aircraft action and the second aircraft has taken a second-aircraft action, the reward signal indicating a score of performance of the first-aircraft action based on dynamic and kinematic properties of the second aircraft; and updating the MLA based on the observation of the environment and the reward signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Deepak Khosla, Kevin R. Martin, Sean Soleyman, Ignacio M. Soriano, Michael A. Warren, Joshua G. Fadaie, Charles Tullock, Yang Chen, Shawn Moffit, Calvin Chung