US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on March 4 for "Hybrid analog/digital circuit for solving nonlinear programming problems" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,321, issued on March 4, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Hybrid analog/digital circuit for solving nonlinear programming problems" was invented by Jason Poon (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid analog-digital electronic circuit for solving non-linear programming problems includes an analog circuit and a digital microcontroller interconnected to each other by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The analog circuit physically realizes a nonlinear programming problem (NLP) where voltages in the analog circui...