US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS on March 25 for "Deep model reference adaptive controller" (Illinois, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,735, issued on March 25, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Ill.).

"Deep model reference adaptive controller" was invented by Girish Chowdhary (Champaign, Ill.), Girish Joshi (Redmond, Wash.) and Jasvir Virdi (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining, at a slower time-scale, inner layer weights of an inner layer of a deep neural network; providing periodically to an outer layer of the deep neural network from the inner layer, a feature vector based upon the inner layer weights; and determining, at a faster time-scale,...