Real-world optimization problems often require an external “modeling engine” that computes fitnesses or data that are then input to an objective function. These programs often have much longer ...

A long line of Federal Circuit precedent holds that a function in a software claim under 35 U.S.C. 112, sixth paragraph, must refer to a corresponding “algorithm” in the specification. Absence of an ...

Means-plus-function claiming has been disfavored (by and large) since at least 1994 when the Federal Circuit handed down its decision in In re Donaldson, where the Federal Circuit sitting en banc ...

Researchers have developed a new AI-powered algorithm to help understand how different cells organize themselves into particular tissues and communicate with one another. Researchers from Children's ...