ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,155, issued on March 3, was assigned to Aixplain Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using machine learning to identify one or more software applications to perform a particular task" was invented by Thiago Castro Ferreira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Lucas Aguiar Pavanelli (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Mohamed Elbadrashiny (Staten Island, N.Y.), Kamer Ali Yuksel (Munchen, Denmark) and Hassan Sawaf (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a server instructs individual software applications to process individual tasks and determines a plurality of outputs resulting from processing. The server determines, based on the plurali...