Stephen Thaler's first patent:
6,356,884 Device system for the autonomous generation of useful information (He has 28 patents so far...)
An artificial neural network-based system and method for determining desired concepts and relationships within a predefined field of endeavor, including a neural network portion, which neural network portion includes an artificial neural network that has been previously trained in accordance with a set of given training exemplars, a monitor portion associated with the neural network portion to observe the data outputs produced by the previously trained artificial neural network, and a perturbation portion for perturbing the neural network portion to effect changes, subject to design constraints of the artificial neural network that remain unperturbed, in the outputs produced by the neural network portion, the perturbation portion operable such that production of an output by the neural network portion thereafter effects a perturbation of the neural network portion by the perturbation portion, the monitor portion responsive to detection of the data outputs being produced by the previously trained neural network, whereby the system is operable to derive over a period of time a plurality of input/perturbation/output mapping relationships that differ from the input/perturbation/mapping relationships of the training exemplars.
Patent 5,393,441 Two-cycle oil additive
Patent 4,981,717 Diamond like coating and method of forming [A method of producing diamond-like coatings comprising confining a plasma initiating precursor gas containing a hydrocarbon and introducing a laser generated beam into the gas; the laser generated beam initiating a plasma in the precursor gas and creating diamond-like precursor fragments from the precursor gas, the plasma propelling the fragments onto a substrate and bonding the fragments to the substrate as a diamond-like coating. ]
Human mind is more than a lab created artificial neural network.