ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,318, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Reinforcement learning for motion policies in mobile relaying networks" was invented by Athina Petropulu (Piscataway, N.J.) and Spilios Evmorfos (Highland Park, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms or apparatus for determining a subsequent time slot position for each of a plurality of spatially distributed relays configured for time slot based beamforming supporting a communication channel between a source and a destination."

The patent was filed on Aug. 15...