ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,463, issued on July 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic smart notification scheduling" was invented by Mathew Varghese (Ernakulam, India), Anita Duggal (Delhi, India), Madhusmita Guru (Hyderabad, India) and Mukundan Sundararajan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optimization of smart notifications within an organization can lead to increase productivity and reduction in missed deadlines and human work hours. An approach for to dynamic scheduling of smart notifications may be presented herein. The approach may include obtaining historical decision event data for an organiza...