ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,267, issued on July 28, was assigned to FUJITSU Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Optimization apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Takayuki Shibasaki (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an optimization apparatus, a computing unit searches for the ground state of an Ising model generated by converting an optimization problem to be solved, based on Ising model information representing the Ising model and a temperature parameter. A control unit determines the minimum value of the temperature parameter, based on a resolution in energy of the computing unit for the Ising model and a first reference value indicating...