US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 26 for "Systems for fast and/or efficient processing of decision networks, and related methods and apparatus" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,598, issued on May 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems for fast and/or efficient processing of decision networks, and related methods and apparatus" was invented by Catherine Mary Williams (New York) and Paul Khuong (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a technique for processing a decision network that includes obtaining an index encoding a mapping from potential values of an input parameter to decision parameters of the network's predicates, wherein the mapping associates potential values of the input parameter with decision ...