US Patent Issued to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on April 21 for "Combinatorial optimization problem processing apparatus, combinatorial optimization problem processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,438, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Combinatorial optimization problem processing apparatus, combinatorial optimization problem processing method, and program" was invented by Masayuki Ohzeki (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combinatorial optimization problem processing apparatus includes an annealing unit that acquires, using an annealing scheme, a candidate for a first solution that is a variable q satisfying a first condition regarding a partition function whose Hamiltonian is a function representing a combination optimization problem that is an analysis target and the funct...