US Patent Issued to GDM Holding on March 24 for "Gated linear contextual bandits" (British, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,912, issued on March 24, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Gated linear contextual bandits" was invented by Eren Sezener (London), Joel William Veness (London), Marcus Hutter (London), Jianan Wang (Kai Tak, Hong Kong) and David Budden (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable storage media, for training a neural network to control a real-world agent interacting with a real-world environment to cause the real-world agent to perform a particular task. One of the methods includes training the neural network to determine first ...