US Patent Issued to FUJITSU on April 29 for "Vehicle routing problem (VRP) solution using annealer-based solvers" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,211, issued on April 29, was assigned to FUJITSU Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Vehicle routing problem (VRP) solution using annealer-based solvers" was invented by Hayato Ushijima-Mwesigwa (San Jose, Calif.), Pouya Shati (Toronto) and Indradeep Ghosh (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a set of parameters associated with a vehicle routing problem is received. A set of decision variables and a set of constraints associated with an optimization problem are received. An optimization problem is constructed. The optimization problem is divided into a set of sub-problems. Each of the set of sub-problems correspond...