ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,921, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Uncertainty-aware continuous control system based on reinforcement learning" was invented by Takuya Kanazawa (Santa Clara, Calif.), Haiyan Wang (Fremont, Calif.) and Chetan Gupta (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reinforcement learning (RL) of continuous actions. The method may include receiving a state as input to at least one actor network to predict candidate actions based on the state, wherein the state is a current observation; outputting the candidate actions from the at least one actor network; receiving the state and the candidate acti...