ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,875, issued on March 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Controlling agents using scene memory data" was invented by Kuan Fang (Stanford, Calif.) and Alexander Toshkov Toshev (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for controlling an agent. One of the methods includes receiving a current observation characterizing a current state of the environment as of the time step; generating an embedding of the current observation; processing scene memory data comprising embeddings of prior observations received at prior ti...