US Patent Issued to QUANTIPHI on Feb. 10 for "Method and system for optimal scheduling of nursing services" (British, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,662, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUANTIPHI INC. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Method and system for optimal scheduling of nursing services" was invented by Dagnachew Birru (Marlborough, Mass.), Timothy Elwell (Marlborough, Mass.), Sofia P Moschou (Reading, Great Britain) and Achint Chaudhary (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for optimal scheduling of nursing services in a hospital is provided herein. The method and system comprises forecasting demand for the nursing services for a time interval based on historical data and external data. The method and system further comprises extracting nurses' availa...