ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,591, issued on April 14, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Training reinforcement learning agents using augmented temporal difference learning" was invented by Caglar Gulcehre (London), Razvan Pascanu (Letchworth Garden City, Great Britain) and Sergio Gomez (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a neural network used to select actions performed by an agent interacting with an environment by performing actions that cause the environment to transition states. One of the methods includes maintaining a rep...