ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,814, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Pathfinding in two and three-dimensional spaces using an automated planning service" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.), Andrew Sellers (Monument, Colo.) and Hao Pan (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for pathfinding in two- and three-dimensional spaces using an automated planning service, wherein an automated planning service uses worker nodes to create and process abstract problem spaces representing pathfinding problems, and master nodes coordinate the results of workers to provide efficient multi-agent-aware pathfinding."...