ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,979, issued on April 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Personalized risk and reward criteria for workforce management" was invented by Julian Bertram Kuehnert (Nairobi, Kenya), Sekou Lionel Remy (Nairobi, Kenya), Aisha Walcott (Nairobi, Kenya) and Catherine H. Crawford (Bedford, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for integrating uncertainty quantifications into a long-term risk based calendar is provided. The present invention may include receiving data for an organization. The present invention may include generating a long-term risk b...