US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Oct. 6 for "Method and system to train and apply a neural network to achieve rapid adaptive initialization of solver software" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,534, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and system to train and apply a neural network to achieve rapid adaptive initialization of solver software" was invented by Gerard Goossen (Amsterdam), Jasper Jacobus Reinier Maria van Heugten (Utrecht, Netherlands), Tijmen Tieleman (Diemen, Netherlands) and Jeroen Bedorf (Heerhugowaard, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Significant gains in the execution speed of mathematical programming solvers may be made by applying a representation of the solver problem to a neural network and receiving from the neural network estimates of variab...