ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,614, issued on Aug. 25.

"Systems and methods for completing tasks" was invented by Zongpeng Qiao (Nanjing, China), Wenshuang Zhang (Nanjing, China), Ze Chen (Nanning, China) and Hao Lan (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method comprises: determining, by a computing device, a potential for tasks of one or more applications not to be completed at a given time, the one or more applications being hosted on remote computing devices; initiating, by the computing device, a call to one or more application programmable interfaces (APIs) of the remote computing devices to retrieve data about the one or more ...