ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,116, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, method and computer program for accelerating grid-of-beams optimization with transfer learning" was invented by Qi Liao (Stuttgart, Germany), Fahad Syed Muhammad (Orsay, France), Veronique Capdevielle (Magny les Hameaux, France), Afef Feki (Sceaux, France), Suresh Kalyanasundaram (Bangalore, India) and Ilaria Malanchini (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deep transfer reinforcement learning (DTRL) method based on transfer learning within a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework is provided to accelerate the GoB optimizat...