ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,087, issued on May 20, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method and device for operating a machine" was invented by Andras Gabor Kupcsik (Boeblingen, Germany), Leonel Rozo (Boeblingen, Germany) and Meng Guo (Renningen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for and method of operating a machine. The method includes providing a sequence of skills of the machine for executing a task, selecting a sequence of states from a plurality of sequences of states, depending on a likelihood, wherein the likelihood is determined depending on a transition probability from a final state of a first sub-sequence of stat...