US Patent Issued on Nov. 11 for "Method and system for automatic task time estimation and scheduling" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,011, issued on Nov. 11.

"Method and system for automatic task time estimation and scheduling" was invented by Owen Mullings (Kitchener, Canada) and John Baker (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for automatic task time estimation and scheduling comprising the steps of: (1) storing a plurality of media items; (2) defining an aggregate task; (3) storing participant data and historical time data; (4) determining a plurality of metadata attributes; and (5) determining a final time estimate."

The patent was filed on Sept. 15, 2023, under Application No. 18/368,777.

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