ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,918, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Quabbin Patent Holdings Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Language model-based multi-objective optimization" was invented by Robert Plotkin (Manalapan, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method: (A) receives product data identifying a product; (B)(B) receives patent data identifying a patent claim; (C) receives prior art data identifying a set of prior art, (D) executes an optimization process to minimize an objective function, the objective function including: a first sub-objective function and a second sub-objective function, the executing the optimization process comprisi...