US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on March 3 for "Patron presence based workforce capacity notification" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,014, issued on March 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Patron presence based workforce capacity notification" was invented by Jialin Li (Westford, Mass.), Pradeep K. Nanjundaswamy (Bangalore, India), Srikanth Sundararajan (Cambridge, Mass.) and Danai Tengtrakool (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining information specifying a count of patrons currently at a venue and determining a probability that at least one patron included in the coun...