ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,989, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Deep surrogate Langevin sampling for multi-objective constraint black box optimization with applications to optimal inverse design problems" was invented by Thanh Van Nguyen (Bellevue, Wash.), Youssef Mroueh (New York), Samuel Chung Hoffman (New York), Payel Das (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Pierre L. Dognin (White Plains, N.Y.), Giuseppe Romano (Cambridge, Mass.) and Chinmay Hegde (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Run a computerized numerical partial differential equation solv...