ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,186, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Training and/or utilizing machine learning model(s) for use in natural language based robotic control" was invented by Pierre Sermanet (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Corey Lynch (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed that enable training a goal-conditioned policy based on multiple data sets, where each of the data sets describes a robot task in a different way. For example, the multiple data sets can include: a goal image data set, where the task is captured in the goal image; a natural language instruction data set, where th...