US Patent Issued to Hitachi Vantara on Oct. 7 for "Information processing apparatus, arithmetic device, and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,221, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hitachi Vantara Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, arithmetic device, and information processing method" was invented by Takuya Okuyama (Tokyo) and Masanao Yamaoka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Searching for a ground state of an Ising model is performed so that a combinatorial optimization problem is efficiently solved. An information processing apparatus stores an energy function setting an interaction between an i-th spin of a first spin group and a j-th spin of a second spin group so that the i-th spin of the first spin group and the j-th spin of the second spin...