US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 3 for "Workflow optimization and re-distribution" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,644, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Workflow optimization and re-distribution" was invented by Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Zhi Li Guan (Beijing), Jun Su (Beijing), Kun Yang (Beijing), Yun Diao (Beijing) and Shi Su (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Workflow optimization and re-distribution involves a target task set that is determined from a plurality of tasks in a workflow and based on a data flow of the workflow. The target task set is re-distributed to obtain at least one re-distributed task set. Each re-distributed task set indicates a respective data path different fr...