ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,695, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Target-oriented reinforcement learning method and apparatus for performing the same" was invented by Byoung-Tak Zhang (Seoul, South Korea), Kibeom Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Minsu Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Min Whoo Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Yoonsung Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target-oriented reinforcement learning method according to an embodiment includes: collecting data related to the target of reinforcement learning as target data in the process of performing the reinforcement learning...