ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,432, issued on July 21, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Exploration method and apparatus in multi-agent reinforcement learning" was invented by Byunghyun Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Woo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeon Gue Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Hwa Jeon Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeongmin Yang (Daejeon, South Korea), Sungwon Yi (Daejeon, South Korea), Euisok Chung (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ran Han (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exploration method used by an exploration apparatus in multi-agent reinforcement learning to collect train...