ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,585, issued on April 21, was assigned to GDM HOLDING LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Neural networks for selecting actions to be performed by a robotic agent" was invented by Razvan Pascanu (Letchworth Garden, Great Britain), Raia Thais Hadsell (London), Mel Vecerik (London), Thomas Rothoerl (London), Andrei-Alexandru Rusu (London) and Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a neural network system implemented by one or more computers. The neural network system is configured to receive an observation characterizing a current state of a real-world environment being interacted with by a roboti...