US Patent Issued to GDM Holding on Nov. 3 for "Exploration using hyper-models" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,891, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Exploration using hyper-models" was invented by Benjamin Van Roy (Stanford, Calif.), Xiuyuan Lu (Mountain View, Calif.), Vikranth Reddy Dwaracherla (Stanford, Calif.), Zheng Wen (Fremont, Calif.), Morteza Ibrahimi (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Ian David Moffat Osband (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 controlling an agent. One of the methods includes sampling one or more index variables from a continuous space of possible index variables in accordance with a...