ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,834, issued on June 23, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Multi-agent reinforcement learning aided smart agriculture networks" was invented by Jianlin Guo (Cambridge, Mass.), Guojun Xiong (Cambridge, Mass.), Kieran Parsons (Cambridge, Mass.) and Philip Orlik (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) agent for forming a two-tier hybrid smart agriculture network architecture is provided. The UAV agent is configured to support two communication protocols, a short-range communication protocol and a long-range communication protocol. The agriculture ...