ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,668, issued on April 21, was assigned to 8flow Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Automatically determining workstreams from common actions in online applications" was invented by Boaz Hecht (Palo Alto, Calif.), Josh Russ (Los Angeles) and Yev Goldin (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment uses a computer-implemented approach to identify and automate workstreams from common actions in online applications. A browser extension collects and processes user event metadata, which is used to train machine learning models for workflow automation. The extension reads relevant fields from web services and delivers prompts with high-...