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Before Lourie, Bryson, and Stark. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Evidence that a claimed parameter is recognized as a result-effective variable can overcome the lack of ...

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Speed: Dirac-3S is engineered to efficiently solve increasingly complex optimization problems, with practical computation times demonstrated on problems involving up to 9,980 variables while ...