US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Aug. 11 for "Map-based task scheduling" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,556, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Map-based task scheduling" was invented by Vishal Ashok Kulkarni (Hyderabad, India), Rahul Singh (Hyderabad, India), Aditya Kumar Singh (Hyderabad, India) and Jaideep C. Bhatia (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for managing tasks and resources using a map-based GUI are disclosed. A system determines locations and available actions associated with the tasks. The system generates a map representing a geographic region and markers indicating the locations of the tasks within the region. In response to the selectio...