ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,822, issued on July 1, was assigned to Regie.ai Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for generating models to identify states and actions" was invented by Matthew Millen (Yarrow Point, Wash.), Srinath Sridhar (San Francisco) and Thomas Tobin (Tiburon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes defining, using a first neural network, and based on a plurality of inputs, a first state associated with (1) an entity and (2) a first node from a plurality of nodes included in a reinforcement learning model. The reinforcement learning model determines, based on a reward, (1) a second state associated with a second node and ...