US Patent Issued to Intel on July 29 for "Graph neural network and reinforcement learning techniques for connection management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,968, issued on July 29, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Graph neural network and reinforcement learning techniques for connection management" was invented by Oner Orhan (San Jose, Calif.), Vasuki Narasimha Swamy (San Francisco), Marcel Nassar (San Diego), Hosein Nikopour (San Jose, Calif.) and Shilpa Talwar (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides connection management techniques based on graph neural networks (GNN) and deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to optimize user association and load balancing. A graph structure of a communication network is considered for the GNN ...