ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,560, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Refining parameter settings for copy services" was invented by Gang Lyu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method (CIM), according to one embodiment, includes defining a fitness function for testing different configurations in a distributed site environment, and generating a configuration table that includes all possible configurations of a system in a test environment. The method further includes performing a testing process for each of the configurations. The testing process includes initializing a populatio...