ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,649, issued on May 26, was assigned to THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK (Toronto).

"Systems and methods for estimation of workflow execution time" was invented by Sanjay Nagaraja (Woodbridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented systems and methods for estimating workflow execution time of a plurality of jobs executed on one or more servers. The system includes a monitoring computer that identifies the plurality of jobs and determines a depth and rank to assign to each job and thereby identify the workflow each job belongs to, along with the sequencing of the job within the workflow."

The patent was filed on Jan. 27, 202...