US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 6 for "System optimization based on iterative specification of operational constraints" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,162, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"System optimization based on iterative specification of operational constraints" was invented by Nianjun Zhou (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Viktoriia Kusherbaeva (Calgary, Canada), Dharmashankar Subramanian (White Plains, N.Y.), Xiang Ma (Vancouver, Canada), Jacqueline Williams (Calgary, Canada) and Nathaniel Mills (Coventry, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining parameters for a system. Selectable questions with associated goal are presented. Operational goals are different from configurable parameters of the system. ...