US Patent Issued to The Florida International University Board of Trustees on July 21 for "Systems and methods for advancing the restoration process for interdependent critical infrastructures" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,476, issued on July 21, was assigned to The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami).

"Systems and methods for advancing the restoration process for interdependent critical infrastructures" was invented by Namrata Saha (Miami), Mohammadhadi Amini (Miami) and Shabnam Rezapour (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for advancing the restoration process for interdependent critical infrastructures (CIs) after a disaster. A modeling and solution approach can leverage the strengths of reinforcement learning (RL) to enhance the computational capability of optimization techniques to advance t...