ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,112, issued on May 13, was assigned to ARINC Inc. (Annapolis, Md.).

"Pre-departure sequencing using multi-agent reinforcement learning" was invented by Jnana Vamsi Kumar Basa (Anaparthi, India), Rohit Chandrahas (Kozhikode, India) and Shivang Tyagi (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for optimizing pre-departure sequencing instantiates independent agent processes for each aircraft. Each independent agent is trained via multi-agent reinforcement machine learning with an existing set of data to maximize that agent's individual reward within established bounds and while cooperating with each other agent....