ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,753, issued on May 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Efficient real-world experimentation using causal inference models" was invented by Adam Evan Foster (Cambridge, Great Britain), Cheng Zhang (Cambridge, Great Britain), Desislava Rosenova Ivanova (Oxford, Great Britain) and Joel Nicholas Jennings (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An experiment design is determined for a plurality of physical experiment entities, based on a training loss that is dependent on a critic function and an action parameter individually associated with each physical experiment entity, with the ai...