ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,790, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Scheduling jobs of a manufacturing or logistics process" was invented by Sergei Chubanov (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of scheduling jobs of a manufacturing or logistics process using a priority function. The priority function is evaluated on multiple to be scheduled jobs to obtain multiple respective priority values. The priority function is defined to invoke a kernel function. The kernel function is defined to compare representations of two respective jobs. Evaluating the priority function on a selecte...