ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,464, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software NV (Leuven, Belgium).

"Controlling a technical system by data-based control model" was invented by Andres Botero Halblaub (Kirchseeon, Germany), Tim Schenk (Landshut, Germany), Till Heinzerling (Stutensee, Germany) and Harald Held (Bockhorn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for configuring a controller and to a method and a controller for controlling a technical system by means of a data-based control model is provided, in particular a model based on reinforcement learning. This data-based control model is configured using a model-predictiv...