ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,874, issued on April 22, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Scheduling project activities using twin computing simulation" was invented by Shailendra Moyal (Pune, India), Nitika Sharma (Zirakpur, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Akash U. Dhoot (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A critical path based proactive optimization that includes collecting data on the tasks of contextual situation for performing a process and training a twin computing simulation model using the collected data for each task in the process. A contextual situation simulation is run using the simulation m...