US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 16 for "Automated model predictive control using a regression-optimization framework for sequential decision making" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,412, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated model predictive control using a regression-optimization framework for sequential decision making" was invented by Dharmashankar Subramanian (White Plains, N.Y.), Nianjun Zhou (Chappaqua, N.Y.) and Pavankumar Murali (Ardsley, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computer system for automated model predictive control. The computer system trains multiple step look-ahead regression models, using historical states and historical actions for a to-be-optimized system, for eac...