ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,408, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INDIA PVT. LTD. (Chennai, India).

"System and a method for optimizing sprint-based tasks in agile methodology" was invented by Dattaprasad Kulkarni (Pune, Italy), Hemant Patil (Pune, India), Rajeswari Kumaran (Chennai, India), Shikha Grover (Noida, India) and Lucky Singh (Bhopal, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for optimizing sprint-based tasks implemented in an agile methodology, the system including a memory and a processor configured to execute a task optimization engine to receive input data including story point data associated with historical u...