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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2025
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
An example method includes selecting treatment assignments for operation of a system in an environment based on a causal model mapped to a probability distribution over possible treatment assignments, where the causal model measures causal relationships between the treatment assignments and a performance metric associated with the environment. The method further includes mapping causal effects between the treatment assignments and measures of uncertainty associated with the environment in the causal model to corresponding probabilities using probability matching. The method further includes determining the performance metric using the treatment assignments and corresponding dependent variables obtained from the environment in response to the treatment assignments. The method further includes adjusting, based on the performance metric, the causal model, and re-computing the adjusted causal model by computing overall causal effects based on the measures of uncertainty around the overall causal effects.