ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,382, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Schedulehead Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Systems and methods for scheduling and managing human resources" was invented by Derick Dorner (Dallas) and Christopher Davis (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein disclose systems and methods for scheduling and managing human resources. The system tracks one or more shifts for one or more empty tasks or staffing spots in an organization and triggers an action upon a detection of at least one predefined event. When triggered, the action includes compiling a list of human resources and communicating with each of the human resources on the l...