ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,853, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (George Town, Cayman Islands).

"Method, apparatus, and storage medium for scheduling tasks" was invented by Min He (Hangzhou, China), Xiao Zheng (Hangzhou, China) and Xin Long (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for scheduling tasks. The method includes acquiring task information of a current task to be executed, the task information describing the current task to be executed; determining an execution time for the current task to be executed according to the...