ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,465, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Continuously improving API service endpoint selections via adaptive reinforcement learning" was invented by Rong Nickle Chang (Pleasantville, N.Y.), Hongyi Bian (Ames, Iowa) and Nitin Gaur (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: receiving, by a processor set, a request for a web-based service; generating, by the processor set, a feature vector including values based on parameters of the request; generating, by the processor set, an endpoint selection vector including plural probabilities corresponding to plural ...