ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,931, issued on April 1, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Optimized coordination and scheduling of use of equipment and resources within work environment" was invented by Michael Pfleger (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Theo Schwemer (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing optimized scheduling of tasks involving equipment used by multiple individuals. In various embodiments, a computing system might receive, from a first user, a first request to use first equipment that is disposed in a work environment, the first request comprising informat...