ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,672, issued on July 15, was assigned to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method for self-supervised reinforcement learning by analogy-making cross-reference to related application" was invented by Sang Wan Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Shin Young Joo (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for self-supervised reinforcement learning (RL) by analogy executed by a computer device, the method including configuring a self-supervised RL with analogical reasoning (SRAR) model; and learning a policy for problem solving in a situation in which a task domain changes...