ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,040, issued on June 23, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Training rate control neural networks through reinforcement learning" was invented by Anton Zhernov (London), Chenjie Gu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daniel J. Mankowitz (St. Albans, Great Britain), Julian Schrittwieser (London), Amol Balkishan Mandhane (London), Mary Elizabeth Rauh (London), Miaosen Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Thomas Keisuke Hubert (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for training rate control neural networks through reinforcement learning. During training, reward values for training examples are generated from the curre...