ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Jan. 24 -- MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, Washington has been assigned a patent (No. US 11562273 B2, initially filed Feb. 11, 2019) developed by three inventors Matthias Troyer, Clyde Hill, Washington; Helmut Gottfried Katzgraber, Kirkland, Washington; and Christopher Anand Pattison, College Station, Texas, for "Accelerator for computing combinatorial cost function." . . .