ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,386, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAS INSTITUTE INC. (Cary, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for parallel exploration of a hyperparameter search space" was invented by Xindian Long (Cary, N.C.), Liping Cai (Cary, N.C.), Xingqi Du (McKinney, Texas), Steven Eric Krueger (Raleigh, N.C.), Joshua David Griffin (Harrisburg, N.C.), Yan Xu (Cary, N.C.), Scott Russell Pope (Cary, N.C.) and Lawrence Edmund Lewis (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer-program product includes selecting, by a controller node, a plurality of candidate hyperparameter search points from a hyperparameter search space; instructin...