ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,439, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Communication refinement using joint mixed integer programming and linear programming" was invented by Ashok Srivastava (Mountain View, Calif.), Sricharan Kallur Palli Kumar (Milpitas, Calif.), Rania Succar (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jack Tam (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Yan Qu (Los Altos, Calif.), Nhung Ho (Redwood City, Calif.), Taylor Horton (Atlanta) and Shivang Bhadresh Shah (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide techniques for defining communication parameters. A method includes obtaining input information relating...