ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,522, issued on June 9, was assigned to Intergraph Corp. (Madison, Ala.).

"Pattern agent for computer-aided dispatch systems" was invented by Jackie Paul Williams II (Fairmont, W.va.), Michael Thomas Cole (Charlottesville, Va.) and Jose Eduardo Zindel Deboni (Santo Andre, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a virtual dispatch assist system in which various types of Intelligent Agents are deployed (e.g., as part of a new CAD system architecture or as add-ons to existing CAD systems) to analyze vast amounts of historic operational data and provide various types of dispatch assist n...