ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,509, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Device and method for controlling an agent" was invented by Jan Guenter Woehlke (Leonberg, Germany), Felix Schmitt (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Herke van Hoof (Diemen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an agent. The method includes obtaining numerical values of a first and second set of state variables, which together represent a current full state of the agent, and the numerical values of the first set of state variables represent a current partial state of the robot; determining a state value prior comprising, for potentia...