US Patent Issued to Google on March 4 for "Optimizing policy controllers for robotic agents using image embeddings" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,117, issued on March 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Optimizing policy controllers for robotic agents using image embeddings" was invented by Yevgen Chebotar (Los Angeles), Pierre Sermanet (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Harrison Lynch (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems, methods, and apparatus, for optimizing a policy controller to control a robotic agent that interacts with an environment to perform a robotic task. One of the methods includes optimizing the policy controller using a neural network that generates numeric embeddings of images of the environment and a demonstration ...