ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,703, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Optimal Dynamics Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for temporal carrier operations" was invented by Joseph Durante (New York), Daniel Powell (Jersey City, N.J.), Burc Arpat (Cupertino, Calif.), Juliana Nascimento (Princeton, N.J.), Larry Thul (Martinsville, N.J.), Jaselle Burnham (Atlanta), Bryan Moreno-Sanchez (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Talal Tahir (North Wales, Pa.) and Warren Powell (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for carrier operations are described. A real-time load model of available loads can be generated. A simulated load representative of a load criteri...