ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,422, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Model selection apparatus, model selection method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Go Takami (Tokyo), Hiromi Okamoto (Tokyo), Masahiko Sato (Tokyo), Hideyuki Fujii (Tokyo), Yoshiyuki Jinguu (Tokyo) and Nobuhiro Mitomo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a model selection apparatus including a candidate model storage unit configured to store a plurality of candidate models each of which is generated by reinforcement learning using, as at least a part of a reward, an output of an evaluation model configured to output an ...