ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,213, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems and methods for real time workload balancing" was invented by Eran Simhon (Cambridge, Mass.), Lasith Adhikari (Cambridge, Mass.), Gregory Boverman (Cambridge, Mass.), David Paul Noren (Sharon, Mass.), Chaitanya Kulkarni (Bangalore, India), Larry James Eshelman (Ossining, N.Y.), Syamanthaka Balakrishnan (Bangalore, India) and Vikram Shivanna (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system for generating real time staffing recommendations for a hospital. The system receives data, including transition data fo...