ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,642, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Decision optimization utilizing tabular data" was invented by Radu Marinescu (Dublin), Akihiro Kishimoto (Tokyo), Paulito Palmes (Dublin) and Martin Wistuba (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for automated policy decision making optimization is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes creating a dataset from a tabular database, wherein the dataset includes one or more columns selected as state variables, a column selected as action variables, and a column selected as reward variables. The compu...