ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,022, issued on July 21, was assigned to Vectra AI Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Method, product, and system for solving arbitrary constraint satisfaction problems" was invented by Nicolas Beauchesne (Honolulu), Sohrob Kazerounian (Brookline, Mass.), William Stow Finlayson IV (Cherry Hill, N.J.) and Karl Matthew Lynn (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an approach for solving arbitrary constraint satisfaction problems. In some embodiments, the approach includes a process to generate a software representation of what is possible based on a system corresponding to the constraint satisfaction problem. The software r...