ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,468, issued on March 11.

"Machine learned scheduling of data retrieval to avoid security restriction flagging" was invented by Dale L. Clark (Mukilteo, Wash.), Silviu Lupsa (Orange, Conn.) and Zachary Goldberg (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of automated data collection which adjusts and reacts to expected availability of update data as well as adjusts and reacts to security restrictions in order to obtain update data as soon as reasonably possible without triggering security lockouts or other restrictions which require excessive amounts of manual intervention. The system and methods provide for effi...