US Patent Issued to FUJITSU on March 18 for "Optimization device, method for controlling optimization device, and computer-readable recording medium recording program for controlling optimization device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,402, issued on March 18, was assigned to FUJITSU Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Optimization device, method for controlling optimization device, and computer-readable recording medium recording program for controlling optimization device" was invented by Masato Sasaki (Kawasaki, Japan), Takeshi Mishina (Kawasaki, Japan) and Satoshi Matsuura (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optimization device includes: a memory; and a processor configured to: perform, as annealing operations, a process including, with respect to a change in a value of any of state variables included in an evaluation function representing an energy, based...