ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,693, issued on March 25, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Potential replacement algorithm selection based on algorithm execution context information" was invented by Charles Theurer (Alplaus, N.Y.), Bradford Miller (Malta, N.Y.), Kirk Lars Bruns (Waitsfield, Vt.), Vrinda Rajiv (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Michael Kinstrey (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, an available algorithm data store may contain information about a pool of available algorithms. An algorithm selection platform coupled to the available algorithm data store may access the information about the pool of av...