ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,537, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security (Washington).

"System and method for allocation of resources" was invented by William Hastings (Billings, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource allocation system may comprise a prediction engine configured to generate a prediction record in a database and a history module configured to store a service record for a service. The resource allocation system may comprise a comparison engine configured to compare the prediction against the service records. The resource allocation system may ...