US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 19 for "Reinforcement learning with quantum oracle" (Maryland, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,864, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Reinforcement learning with quantum oracle" was invented by Daochen Wang (College Park, Md.), Aarthi Meenakshi Sundaram (Seattle), Robin Ashok Kothari (Seattle), Martin Henri Roetteler (Woodinville, Wash.) and Ashish Kapoor (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device is provided, including a processor configured to transmit, to a quantum coprocessor, instructions to encode a Markov decision process (MDP) model as a quantum oracle. The processor may be further configured to train a reinforcement learning model at least ...