ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,290, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Cross-domain imitation learning using goal conditioned policies" was invented by Yuxiang Zhou (London), Yusuf Aytar (London) and Konstantinos Bousmalis (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is described a system implemented as computer programs on one or more computers in one or more locations that trains a policy neural network that is used to control a robot, i.e., to select actions to be performed by the robot while the robot is interacting with an environment, through imitation learning in order to cause the robot to perform particular tasks in ...