ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,182, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Training action selection neural networks using auxiliary tasks of controlling observation embeddings" was invented by Markus Wulfmeier (Balgheim, Germany), Tim Hertweck (Lauchringen, Germany) and Martin Riedmiller (Balgheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment to accomplish a goal. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining an observation characterizing a state of the e...