ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,681, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method for configuring a control agent for a technical system, and control device" was invented by Phillip Swazinna (Neufahrn, Germany), Steffen Udluft (Eichenau, Germany) and Thomas Runkler (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To configure a control agent, predefined training data are read in, which specify state datasets, action datasets and resulting performance values of the technical system. Using the training data, a data-based dynamic model is trained to reproduce a resulting performance value using a state dataset and an action dataset. An action evaluation proce...