ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,671, issued on May 26, was assigned to Hexagon Technology Center GmbH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Project management search engine" was invented by Ravi S. Jonnalagadda (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method associates a historical scenario with historical actions and historical project results with the historical actions. The method generates a project management interface and receives a search request. The method matches the search request to the historical scenario. The method determines possible actions and, for each possible action, determines intermediate project results. Each of the intermediate project results ...