ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,290, issued on June 24, was assigned to The Strategic Coach Inc. (Toronto).

"Apparatus and method for local optimization using unsupervised learning" was invented by Barbara Sue Smith (Toronto) and Daniel J. Sullivan (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and methods for local optimization using unsupervised learning is disclosed. The apparatus comprises at least a processor and a memory to identify a first stage of a process, wherein the first stage includes a plurality of candidate subsequent stages and a plurality of potential resources, each resource of the plurality of resources having a plurality of attributes, se...