US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 24 for "Branch and bound for combinatorial optimization in partially observable environments" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,628, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Branch and bound for combinatorial optimization in partially observable environments" was invented by Saurabh Jha (Austin, Texas), Sailendu Kumar Patra (Bangalore, India) and Priya Shanmugasundaram (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing order processing includes obtaining a set of time series datasets associated with the order processing for an order processing system, generating a state space for the set of time series datasets using bi-partite graph representations for a mixed integer program (MIP), applying a transition f...