ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,710, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"Method and system for cooperating packing actions and unpacking actions of mechanical arm based on deep reinforcement learning" was invented by Wei Zhang (Jinan, China), Ran Song (Jinan, China), Shuai Song (Jinan, China), Shuo Yang (Jinan, China), Shilei Chu (Jinan, China) and Yibin Li (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cooperating packing actions and unpacking actions of mechanical arm based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL), wherein a synergistic effect between a packing action and an unpacking action is learnt by means of a packi...