ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,643, issued on May 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"AI-assisted schedule planner" was invented by Muiris Woulfe (Dublin), Ata Taner Aydemir (Dublin), Chaitanya Kumar Kamatham (Surrey, Canada), Sheetal Prasad Goyal (Hyderabad, India), Vignesh Ramamoorthy (Dublin), Ievgen Polyvanyi (Dublin) and David Mowatt (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system implements receiving, via a first software application on a client device, a call requesting a schedule to be generated for a user by a generative model. The system further implements identifying online and/or offline data source(...