ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,193, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multi-objective work prioritization for common assets" was invented by Harish Bharti (Pune, India), Rajesh Kumar Saxena (Thane East, India), Jayadev J (Kasaragod, India) and Sandeep Sukhija (Rajasthan, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prioritizing a work request pertaining to a physical asset can include generating a data structure that encodes the work request as a multidimensional representation indicating at least one classification, each at least one classification including at least one sub-category. In response to identifying multip...