US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on May 12 for "Persistent schedule evaluation and adaptive re-scheduling" (Rhode Island, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,724, issued on May 12, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy.

"Persistent schedule evaluation and adaptive re-scheduling" was invented by Matthew J Bays (Panama City, Fla.) and Thomas A Wettergren (Newport, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for dynamic evaluation and elastic re-planning for a variant of the flexible job-shop scheduling problem, wherein a set of jobs have been pre-allocated to a set of machines for performing the various subtasks for the jobs. The machines are allocated the tasks under a pre-defined but estimated schedule based on ini...