ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,765, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Physical system control optimization using principle models and machine learning models" was invented by Dzung Tien Phan (Pleasantville, N.Y.), Vinicius Lima Silva (Philadelphia) and Jayant R. Kalagnanam (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for controlling determining an optimization solution for controlling a physical system. An optimization model is formed using an objective function and a set of constraints, a machine learning model that predicts a target value for a target variable for a p...