US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Sept. 1 for "Control device and control method that predicts a future state of the control target using a model segmented by the segmentation unit and calculates a control policy of the control target based on the predicted future state" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,386, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Control device and control method that predicts a future state of the control target using a model segmented by the segmentation unit and calculates a control policy of the control target based on the predicted future state" was invented by Takaaki Sekiai (Tokyo), Yuya Tokuda (Tokyo) and Takuya Yoshida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This control device 10 comprises a model construction unit 11 that constructs a model for simulating a control object 20, a problem subdivision unit 12 that subdivides the model constructed by the model construction unit 11, a control m...