ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,051, issued on June 17, was assigned to MARA Labs Inc. (Bengaluru, India).

"Automated location visit schedule optimization" was invented by Abhishek Goyal (Rajasthan, India), Niraj Kumar (Jharkhand, India), Ashvin Kumar (Karnataka, India) and Kewal Krishna (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A schedule data structure includes a schedule of visits to a plurality of destinations over a plurality of weeks, the visits being associated with respective rider/vehicle identification (RVID) parameters corresponding to one of the plurality of riders/vehicles. The schedule may be optimized for multiple parameters but non-optimized ...