ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,204, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Warm starting an online bandit learner model utilizing relevant offline models" was invented by Georgios Theocharous (San Jose, Calif.), Zheng Wen (Fremont, Calif.), Yasin Abbasi Yadkori (Hanoi, Viet Nam) and Qingyun Wu (Chrlottsville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for utilizing offline models to warm start online bandit learner models. For example, the disclosed system can determine relevant offline models for an environment based on reward estimate differences between the offl...