US Patent Issued to ADP on Aug. 26 for "Delegation of tasks in an enterprise environment" (New York, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,159, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ADP Inc. (Roseland, N.J.).

"Delegation of tasks in an enterprise environment" was invented by William Randall Donovan (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Nicholas Heasman (Sarasota, Fla.) and Prasannakumar Palanikumar (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for delegating tasks in an enterprise service. A user can associate an action or task within the enterprise service with a delegate. The user can also specify temporal restrictions with the delegation of the task. The temporal restrictions specified time limitations on the authority of the delegate."

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