ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,869, issued on May 27, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electronic device and method of filtering dispatching rules for workstation" was invented by Tung-Han Wu (Taichung, Taiwan) and Ching-Fang Shao (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device and a method of filtering dispatching rules for a workstation are provided. The method includes the following. A dispatch rule set including a first dispatching rule and a first test data set are obtained. An initial individual is generated according to the dispatch rule set based on a genetic algorithm. A first individual is...