ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,636, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to DeepMind Technologies Ltd. (London).

"Learned computer control using pointing device and keyboard actions" was invented by Peter Conway Humphreys (London), Timothy Paul Lillicrap (London), Tobias Markus Pohlen (London) and Adam Anthony Santoro (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for controlling a particular computer to execute a task is described. The method includes receiving a control input comprising a visual input, the visual input including one or more screen frames of a computer display that represent at least a current state of the particular computer, pr...