ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,019, issued on July 8.

"Distributed activity control systems for artificial intelligence task execution direction including task adjacency and reachability analysis" was invented by Robert D. Pedersen (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic, distributed directed activity network comprising a directed activity control program specifying tasks to be executed including required individual task inputs and outputs, the required order of task execution, permitted parallelism in task execution, task adjacency to subsequent tasks, and reachability from each task to other tasks; a plurality of task execution agents, individual of said...