ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,523, issued on April 22, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program of searching for optimal solution of combinatorial optimization problem using multiple search devices" was invented by Noboru Yoneoka (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor configured to acquire, among a plurality of solutions, a first solution corresponding to a best value among values of a plurality of the energy functions corresponding to ...