US Patent Issued to Roster-5 Software on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for distributed decision-making and scheduling" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,725, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Roster-5 Software Inc (Louisville, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for distributed decision-making and scheduling" was invented by Brian Van Matre (Lafayette, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the disclosed invention is a computer-implemented method to build a schedule, which includes establishing a scheduling period and a number of tasks to be accomplished during the schedule, assigning an expected value to each of the tasks, and using an iterative RIDES loop to adjust the expected value for each task and rebuild the schedule until the expected value is optimized. Another embodi...