ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,079, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BULL SAS (Les Clayes sous Bois, France).

"Simulation by substitution of a model by physical laws with an automatic learning model" was invented by Gael Goret (Reaumont, France), Leo Nicoletti (Meylan, France), Stephane Pralet (Autrans, France) and Cedric Bourrasset (Lodeve, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for simulating the behavior of a system (20) composed by a subsystem (10) in a physical environment (21), by a set of modules, each simulating a portion of said system, wherein at least one portion (11) of said subsystem (10) is simulated by a module implementing a multilayer neur...