ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,582, issued on May 6, was assigned to KBR WYLE SERVICES LLC (Houston).

"Communication network resilience based on distributed multi-agent q-learning algorithm" was invented by Lan Kim Nguyen (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Elsa Newman Schaefer (Fairfax, Va.) and Robert Arthur Hughes Jr. (Bayfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for strengthening communication network resilience at a source agent of the communication network, comprising accessing an access list comprising communication relay agents available to the source agent. The method further comprising accessing a Q-table that corresponds to the communication relay agent...