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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2023
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, Woodbury, 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 determining causal models for controlling environments. One of the methods includes identifying a procedural instance; determining a temporal extent for the procedural instance based on temporal extent parameters for the one or more entities in the procedural instance; selecting control settings for the procedural instance; monitoring environment responses to the control settings that are received for the one or more entities; determining which of the environment responses to attribute to the procedural instance in a causal model; and adjusting, based at least in part on the environment responses that are attributed to the procedural instance, the temporal extent parameters for the one or more entities.