ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,451, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Systems and methods for dynamic task scheduling and rescheduling using heterogeneous multi-agent fleet" was invented by Chayan Sarkar (Kolkata, India), Ruchira Singh (Kolkata, India) and Balamuralidhar Purushothaman (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to system and methods for dynamic scheduling and rescheduling using heterogeneous multi-agent fleet. The embodiments of present disclosure herein address unresolved problem of task allocation using a single solution which is not sufficient for handling ...