ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,234, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Reinforcement learning for testing suite generation" was invented by Andrew C.M. Hicks (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Deborah A. Furman (Staatsburg, N.Y.), Michael Terrence Cohoon (Fishkill, N.Y.) and Michael E Gildein (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the invention include mutating each neural network of a portion of a first array of neural networks, wherein each neural network of the first array of neural networks is configured to select a respective sequence of test cases for testing a computing infrastructure. C...