US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on Oct. 27 for "Hybrid reinforcement learning (RL) to control a water distribution network" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,248, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Hybrid reinforcement learning (RL) to control a water distribution network" was invented by Yuan Zhou (Waterloo, Canada), Shu Wang (Hamilton, Canada), Harsh Bakulchandra Patel (Etobicoke, Canada), Michael Pennell (San Clemente, Calif.), Jieliang Luo (San Bruno, Calif.) and Alexander Lamb (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system control a water distribution network. A database is maintained of prior states based on a residential water demand, a tank level, and an energy tariff. A current state of the water distribution network is det...