ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,099, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Quabbin Patent Holdings Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Language model-based multi-objective optimization" was invented by Robert Plotkin (Englishtown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method: (A) receives product data identifying a product; (B) (B) receives patent data identifying a patent claim; (C) receives prior art data identifying a set of prior art, (D) executes an optimization process to minimize an objective function, the objective function including: a first sub-objective function and a second sub-objective function, the executing the optimization process comprisin...