ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,322, issued on July 15, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Device and method for training a gaussian process state space model" was invented by Hon Sum Alec Yu (London), Dingling Yao (Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany), Christoph Zimmer (Korntal, Germany) and The Duy Nguyen-Tuong (Calw, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Training a Gaussian process state space model, which describes a correlation between selected control parameters of a plurality of control parameters for controlling a robotic device and output variables of the robotic device assigned in each case. The method includes: for each control parameter...