ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,512, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute (New York).

"Techniques for improving occupancy simulations and optimizing space utilization" was invented by Davide Schaumann (New York) and Pierre Pasquet (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for improved occupancy simulations. A method includes executing a scheduler algorithm based on input data in order to output a plurality of synthetic schedules, wherein the input data includes space data, persona data, and work pattern data, wherein the scheduler algorithm includes a plurality of sub-algorithms executed accord...