US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 14 for "Optimizer agnostic explanation system for large scale schedules" (American, Chinese, French, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,454, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optimizer agnostic explanation system for large scale schedules" was invented by Surya Shravan Kumar Sajja (Bangalore, India), Kanthi Sarpatwar (Elmsford, N.Y.), Lam Minh Nguyen (Ossining, N.Y.), Yuan Yuan Jia (BeiJing), Stephane Michel (Roquefort les Pins, France) and Roman Vaculin (Larchmont, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method using an artificial intelligence (A.I.) module to explain large scale scheduling solutions includes receiving an original instance of a resource constrained scheduling problem. The ins...