ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,705, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Scheduling a pausable automated process in a computer network" was invented by Siva Kumar Paini (Hyderabad, India), Sudhakar Balu (Chennai, India) and Sathya Thamilarasan (Theni, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device configured to identify automated process instructions for a network device. The automated process instructions include instructions for performing a series of actions on the network device. The device is further configured to identify a first time instance for executing the automated process instructions that does not occur within a...