ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,575, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to General Dynamics Mission Systems Inc. (Fairfax, Va.).

"Systems and methods for using reinforcement learning agents to track targets based on a reward including an information metric reward" was invented by Emily Beatty (Arlington, Va.) and Eric Dong (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimated target position is generated based on agent data received from an agent sensor system of a reinforcement learning (RL) agent and teammate data received from a plurality of teammate RL agents. An information metric reward is generated based on a confidence level associated with the estimated tar...