ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,466, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Apparatuses, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products for improved multi-modal optimization for particular control schemes" was invented by Joseph Z. Lu (Glendale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments generate improved optimizations of processing unit(s) associated with a particular dynamic control scheme (e.g., an MPC architecture). Embodiments perform the improved optimizations based on default assumptions associated with the scheme, for example status operation of a particular mode. Some embodiments generate defa...