US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Aug. 25 for "Predicting downstream schedule effects of user task assignments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,158, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Predicting downstream schedule effects of user task assignments" was invented by Robert St. Pierre (Campbell, Calif.) and Mark Pearson (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for managing task assignments to workers in a work environment are disclosed. A system identifies one or more workers with qualifications that match recommended qualifications to perform a task in a work environment. The system applies a trained machine learning model to task performance data associated with the worker, such as a past history o...