ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,424, issued on June 30, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Storage medium, solution search method, and information processing device" was invented by Daisuke Kushibe (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a solution search program that causes at least one computer to execute a process, the process includes reducing, when searching for a ground state of the Ising model that represents a problem by obtaining a state change of the Ising model, a strength of a magnetic field applied to the Ising model according to a first annealing schedule from an initial s...