ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,198, issued on May 12, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co. (Fort Worth, Texas).

"Systems and methods for using generative artificial intelligence with agile project management" was invented by Phillip J. Gollhofer (Fort Worth, Texas) and Dinesh A. Velhal (Argyle, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for using artificial intelligence (AI) with agile project management (APM) includes accessing an APM user story, a plurality of an AI chatbot prompts, and a plurality of large language model (LLM) parameters. The APM user story includes a user description of a unit of work. The method further includes electronically transmitting, to ...