ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,699, issued on March 11, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method for data-driven reference generation" was invented by Ankush Chakrabarty (Cambridge, Mass.), Karl Berntorp (Cambridge, Mass.), Stefano Di Cairano (Cambridge, Mass.) and Yebin Wang (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller is provided for operating a system under admissible states. The controller includes an interface configured to connect the system storing a set of measured system states, a set of reference inputs and a set of system parameters in a storage arranged inside or outside the...