ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,519, issued on July 15, was assigned to INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION RESEARCH ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS (Tokyo).

"System optimal control device, system optimal control method, and program" was invented by Kittiphon Phalakarn (Tokyo), Toru Takisaka (Tokyo), Thomas Haas (Tokyo) and Ichiro Hasuo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system optimal control technique with accuracy guarantee that enables high-speed calculations is provided. One aspect of the present invention is related to a system optimal control device including a graph converting unit configured to convert, based on an upper bound of a...