ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,515, issued on March 17, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Off-line learning for robot control using a reward prediction model" was invented by Konrad Zolna (London) and Scott Ellison Reed (Atlanta).

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 off-line learning using a reward prediction model. One of the methods includes obtaining robot experience data; training, on a first subset of the robot experience data, a reward prediction model that receives a reward input comprising an input observation and generates as output a rewa...