ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,641, issued on July 22, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Apparatuses and methods for facilitating solutions to optimization problems via modeling through natural language processing and machine learning" was invented by Carlos Eduardo De Andrade (Gainesville, Fla.), Rakesh Sinha (Edison, N.J.) and Ajay Mahimkar (Edison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a natural language statement of an optimization problem that is to be solved, analyzing the natural language statement to select a template included within a plurality of templates, gene...