ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,350, issued on July 22, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Random action replay for reinforcement learning" was invented by Wei Zhang (Littleton, Mass.), Murray Scott Campbell (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Yang Yu (Acton, Mass.) and Sadhana Kumaravel (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial intelligence (AI) platform to support random action replay for natural language (NL) learning. A NL conversation is subject to exploration to train a neural network. One or more tuples are leveraged for the training, with each tuple representing an input action, a vector, an output action, an...