US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Sept. 29 for "Controlling a manufacturing process using causal models" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,393, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Controlling a manufacturing process using causal models" was invented by Brian E. Brooks (St. Paul, Minn.), Gilles J. Benoit (Minneapolis), Peter O. Olson (Andover, Minn.), Tyler W. Olson (Woodbury, Minn.), Himanshu Nayar (St. Paul, Minn.), Frederick J. Arsenault (Stillwater, Minn.) and Nicholas A. Johnson (Burnsville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes selecting treatment assignments for operation of a system in an environment based on a causal model mapped to a probability distribution over possible treatment assi...