US Patent Issued to Siemens on March 17 for "System and method for supporting execution of batch production using reinforcement learning" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,587, issued on March 17, was assigned to Siemens Corp. (Washington).

"System and method for supporting execution of batch production using reinforcement learning" was invented by Ting-Han Fan (Princeton, N.J.), Yubo Wang (Princeton, N.J.), Ulrich Muenz (Princeton, N.J.) and Mathias Hakenberg (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for supporting execution of batch production by a production system includes, over a sequence of steps: acquiring a system state defined by a shop floor status, inventory status and a demand of the product types, and processing the system state using a reinforcement l...