The phrase "asked to devise a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when someone is requested to create or formulate something, typically a plan, strategy, or solution.
Example: "The committee was asked to devise a new approach to improve community engagement."
Alternatives: "requested to create a" or "instructed to formulate a".
The class was asked to devise a business idea and write a business plan.
"Is it possible," he asked, "to devise a modern equivalent?" The answer is yes.
All schools have been asked to devise a new schedule and submit it by the end of February.
On their return to work they are asked to devise a project that helps to develop HSBC's approach to sustainability.
The participants were asked to devise a scheme to make the world a better place, prompting Mr Agassi to cook up his electric-car plan.
A stage magician called Tommy Trent is travelling to the western front after being asked to devise a means of making allied aircraft invisible to the enemy.
For the second version of MIC-O-MAP, the answer written on the blank sheet provided with the real-world answer is absorbed into the second question where students are asked to devise an explanation for an observed pattern.
Colonel Otley Parry, a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex and author of a book on military badges, was asked to devise an addition to the shield.
The parents are asked to devise and inscribe a personal implementation intention.
Neal Kingston, the chief operating officer at Measured Progress, said his company had occasionally been asked to devise and deliver new statewide tests in three months -- an utterly impossible task, he said.
Students are asked to devise and carry out their own experiments to evaluate the performance characteristics of a particular unit operation and associated equipment, to critically analyse the results of the experiments and to properly report such results.
