ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,442, issued on June 23, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Computer-based techniques for capturing knowledge about computer-based tasks" was invented by Fraser Anderson (Camrose, Canada), George Fitzmaurice (Toronto), Tovi Grossman (Toronto), Rebecca Paige Krosnick (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Walter Lasecki (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Justin Frank Matejka (Newmarket, Canada) and Steve Oney (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a knowledge capture application automatically captures knowledge associated with computer-based tasks. While a computer-based task is performed during a computer-based session, t...