US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 4 for "Batched reinforcement learning" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,891, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Batched reinforcement learning" was invented by Danijar Hafner (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for batched reinforcement learning. For example, the batched reinforcement learning techniques can be used to determine a control policy for a robot in simulation and the control policy can then be used to control the robot in the real world. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a plurality of current observations, each current observation characterizing a ...