# Stephen L. Thaler — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Stephen L. Thaler has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How a Camera-Based System Monitors Artificial Neural Network Creativity](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/10423875/electro-optical-device-and-method-for-identifying-and-inducing-topological-states-formed-among-interconnecting-neural-modules) — granted 2019
  A system that uses a camera to watch a screen displaying neural network activity, identifying new patterns and using a critic to decide if those patterns are worth keeping.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/stephen-l-thaler

---

_Source: PatentBrief — https://patentbrief.org. Plain-English explanations of US patents._