ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,970, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Differentiable learning of scalable multi-agent navigation policies" was invented by Zherong Pan (Bellevue, Wash.), Xifeng Gao (Bellevue, Wash.) and Kui Wu (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for navigating multiple objects from initial positions towards target positions are described in the present disclosure. The method includes obtaining an initial configuration and a target configuration, the initial configuration comprising initial positions of multiple objects, and the target configura...