ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,661, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for executing automation scenario in parallel" was invented by Hyo Young Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Cheol Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Koo Hyun Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus includes a section extraction module configured to receive an automation scenario including a plurality of sections, and to extract one or more sections of a plurality of job types, from among the plurality of sections, the one or more sections being executable in parallel, a section optimization module configured to ...