ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,777, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Optimizing a machine for solving offline optimization problems" was invented by Alexander Zadorojniy (Haifa, Israel) and Vladimir Lipets (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improving a machine operation are provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of domain specific heuristics and a set of states and a set of actions, where an immediate cost and/or reward is associated with a pair of state and action. The method also includes generating at least one of: a graph of state transitions for the actions, and a tran...