US Patent Issued to The Boston Consulting Group on May 27 for "Systems and methods of deploying reinforcement learning" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,820, issued on May 27, was assigned to The Boston Consulting Group Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods of deploying reinforcement learning" was invented by Muhammad Arjumand Masood (Cambridge, Mass.) and Arun Karthik Ravindran (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for using reinforcement learning to optimize promotions are disclosed. A promotion can be offered to a customer computing device, using a reinforcement learning model with a sensitivity parameter. A customer's reaction to the promotion can be observed."

The patent was filed on April 27, 2022, under Application No. 17/660,911.

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