ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,233, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Methods, apparatuses, and computer programming products implementing a multi-variable, closed loop approach for determining an optimization pathway" was invented by Amanda Copperthite (Houston), Daniel Sherman (Geismar, La.), Scott Duncan (Houston), Paul Prabakar (Cumming, Ga.), Ramdas Pai (Cary, N.C.), Jeffrey Renfro (Deer Park, Texas), Joseph Majewski (Huntington, N.Y.) and Joseph Lu (Glendale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for generating improved, feasible, and optimized pathways for optimiz...