ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,973, issued on April 21, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Stochasticity mitigation in deployed AI agents" was invented by Kingsuk Maitra (Fremont, Calif.), Brendan Lee Bryant (Kirkland, Wash.), Chris Allen Premoe (Redmond, Wash.) and Kence Anderson (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein mitigate stochasticity when controlling a mechanical system with artificial intelligence (AI) agents. In some configurations, AI agents are created using data generated by a machine learning model. Stochasticity is segmented temporally into near term and long term, and dif...