ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,005, issued on June 23, was assigned to AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY INC. (New York).

"Bot factory environment" was invented by Baranidharan Chinnasamy (Weston, Fla.), Manjunath Devadi (Weston, Fla.), Chandler Helmuth (Phoenix), Mitchell Kurman (Parkland, Fla.), Vijayakumar Sitha Mohan (Weston, Fla.), Saurabh Pathak (Weston, Fla.) and Florian Popescu (Sunrise, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are method, system, and computer product embodiments for generating a graphical user interface (GUI) to visually represent a programmatic process with various process objects. This may also include interac...