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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2019
3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Brian E. Brooks, St. Paul, MN (US);
Gilles J. Benoit, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Peter O. Olson, Andover, MN (US);
Tyler W. Olson, Woodbury, MN (US);
Himanshu Nayar, St. Paul, MN (US);
Frederick J. Arsenault, Stillwater, MN (US);
Nicholas A. Johnson, Burnsville, MN (US);
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimizing a manufacturing process. In one aspect, the method comprises repeatedly performing the following: i) selecting a configuration of control settings for a manufacturing process, based on a causal model that measures causal relationships between control settings and a measure of a success of the manufacturing process; ii) determining the measure of the success of the manufacturing process using the configuration of control settings; and iii) adjusting, based on the measure of the success of the manufacturing process using the configuration of control settings, the causal model.