ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,496, issued on June 23, was assigned to HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY (Hartford, Conn.).

"System and method for resource allocation control with display" was invented by Alan S. Mickey (Coventry, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, systems and methods are provided including instructions to: receive a workflow; retrieve a plurality of tasks associated with the received workflow; generate a timeline for execution of each task including for at least one task a lead time and a dependent task; receive a user assignment for each task; and transmit the timeline and the user assignment to a workflow schedule...