ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,295, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for controlling pallets in a manufacturing environment using reinforcement learning" was invented by Harshal Maske (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Devesh Upadhyay (Canton, Mich.), Jim Birley (Bingham Farms, Mich.), Dimitar Petrov Filev (Novi, Mich.), Justin Miller (Berkley, Mich.) and Robert Bennett (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining sensor data from a plurality of sensors disposed at a plurality of routing control locations of an environment, where the sensor data is indicative of a number ...