ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,126, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Qingdao University of Technology (Qingdao, China) and Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China).

"Q-learning based model-free control method for indoor thermal environment of aged care building" was invented by Yanxue Li (Qingdao, China), Wenya Xu (Qingdao, China), Yue Gu (Qingdao, China), Yang Xu (Qingdao, China) and Weijun Gao (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a Q-learning based model-free control method for an indoor thermal environment of an aged care building and belongs to the technical field of building environment control. According to the present ...