US Patent Issued to Utopus Insights on Dec. 16 for "Spatio-temporal approach to scheduling field operations" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,395, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Utopus Insights Inc. (Valhalla, N.Y.).

"Spatio-temporal approach to scheduling field operations" was invented by Mehmet F. Candas (Croton on Hudson, N.Y.), Arun Hampapur (Norwalk, Conn.), Tarun Kumar (Mohegan Lake, N.Y.) and Shilpa N. Mahatma (Mohegan Lake, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for creating a spatio-temporal schedule includes receiving a set of available work crews and a set of workorders to be scheduled, sequencing the set of workorders, wherein each workorder of the set of workorders is associated with a geographic location, a start time and an end time, and iterating ...