ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,417, issued on Sept. 29.

"Distributed computer method and system enabling application of autonomous agents" was invented by David Noack (Bury St Edmunds, Great Britain), Humayun Munir Sheikh (Bury St Edmunds, Great Britain) and Florian Wilde (Bury St Edmunds, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and a system that presents a framework for efficient agent communication, focusing on dialogues represented as directed graphs (DGs) to govern message flows. Each dialogue, embodying potential messages and replies, is managed at a session level, allowing multiple concurrent sessions between agent pairs. Invalid ...