ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,943, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Refinement of large multi-dimensional search spaces" was invented by Burkhard Ringlein (Bulach, Switzerland), Srikumar Venugopal (Dublin), Michael Johnston (Dublin) and Christoph Hagleitner (Wallisellen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes detecting a search request of a multi-dimensional search space by a system; responsive to detecting the search request, sampling representative parameters in the multi-dimensional search space based on a sampling threshold. The embodiment includes determining a parameter range ...