ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,928, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method and a system for applying machine learning to an application" was invented by Pablo Rodriguez (Ilvesheim, Germany), Benjamin Kloepper (Mannheim, Germany), Arzam Muzaffar Kotriwala (Ladenburg, Germany), Marcel Dix (Mannheim, Germany), Debora Clever (Zwingenberg, Germany) and Fan Dai (Zwingenberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for applying machine learning to an application includes: a) generating a candidate policy by a learner; b) executing a program in at least one simulated application based on a set of candidate parameters provid...