ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,450, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami).

"Federated deep reinforcement learning-assisted UAV trajectory planning against hostile defense system" was invented by Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman (Miami) and Alvi Ataur Khalil (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, frameworks, and methods for reinforcement learning (RL)-based real-time path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are provided. The learning capabilities of federated learning (FL) can be integrated with an improved deep RL framework, including using a significant reply memory buffer (SRMB) to accelerate th...