ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,115, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method for controlling a robot" was invented by Anoop Cherian (Cambridge, Mass.), Xiulong Liu (Cambridge, Mass.), Sudipta Paul (Cambridge, Ala.) and Moitreya Chatterjee (Cambridge, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for controlling a robot is provided. The controller comprises a hierarchical multimodal reinforcement learning (RL) neural network including a first level controller and three second level controllers. The second level controllers comprise a first sub level controller to receive input data bas...