ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,190, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Bound enhanced reinforcement learning system for distribution supply chain management" was invented by Haiyan Wang (Fremont, Calif.), Atsuki Kiuchi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hsiu-Khuern Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Chetan Gupta (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ibrahim El-Shar (Tokyo) and Wenhuan Sun (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations described herein involve systems and methods for bound enhanced reinforcement learning systems for distribution supply chain management which can include initializing a replay buffer, a first state-action value function network having...