US Patent Issued to Tata Consultancy Services on Jan. 27 for "Method and system for evolved SARSA reinforcement learning for flow shop scheduling" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,445, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for evolved SARSA reinforcement learning for flow shop scheduling" was invented by Pallavi Venugopal Minimol (Pune, India), Sagar Srinivas Sakhinana (Pune, India) and Venkataramana Runkana (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flow Shop Scheduling Problems (FSSP) solved using combination of Reinforcement Learning (RL), Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Heuristics is effective if can provide makespan as minimum as possible. Embodiments herein provide a method and system for evolved State-Action-Reward-State-Action (evolved SARSA) ...