ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,253, issued on May 5, was assigned to Citibank N.A..

"Allocating resources among autonomous artificial intelligence agents within a distributed computational network" was invented by Vishal Mysore (Mississauga, Canada), Prithvi Narayana Rao (Allen, Texas), Payal Jain (London), Sawyer Uzzell (New York), Joao Paulo De Castro Marchese (Miami) and James Myers (Clearwater, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed herein automatically evaluate, select, and coordinate artificial intelligence (AI)-based agents for collaborative distributed task execution based on dynamic, multi-attribute scoring and resource allocation...