ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,364, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method for controlling an entity" was invented by Anoop Cherian (Cambridge, Mass.) and Sudipta Paul (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for controlling an entity is provided. The controller comprises a memory to store a hierarchical multimodal reinforcement learning (RL) neural network, and a processor. The hierarchical multimodal RL neural network includes a first level controller and two second level controllers. Each of the second level controllers comprise a first sub level controller rel...