ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,676, issued on May 5, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for service gap mitigation or elimination via new site recommendation" was invented by Durgesh Rathore (Indore, India), Nilesh Bankar (Indore, India), Atul Rajpoot (Indore, India) and Sudeep Kumar Jain (Indore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include determining an area of a service gap and an area of a candidate site; multiplying the candidate site area by a predetermined percentage to determine a threshold; when the service gap area is greater than or equal to the threshold, dividing the service gap area by the candidate site a...