US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 2 for "Accelerator for computing combinatorial cost function" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,264, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Accelerator for computing combinatorial cost function" was invented by Matthias Troyer (Clyde Hill, Wash.), Helmut Gottfried Katzgraber (Kirkland, Wash.) and Christopher Anand Pattison (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device, including memory, an accelerator device, and a processor. The processor may generate a plurality of data packs that each indicate an update to a variable of one or more variables of a combinatorial cost function. The processor may transmit the plurality of data packs to the accelerator de...