US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Oct. 7 for "Determining causal models for controlling environments" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,512, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Determining causal models for controlling environments" was invented by Brian E. Brooks (St. Paul, Minn.), Gilles J. Benoit (Minneapolis), Peter O. Olson (Andover, Minn.), Tyler W. Olson (Woodbury, Minn.), Himanshu Nayar (St. Paul, Minn.), Frederick J. Arsenault (Stillwater, Minn.) and Nicholas A. Johnson (Burnsville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining causal models for controlling environments. One of the methods includes repeatedly...