ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,643, issued on April 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating workflow representations using reinforced feedback analysis" was invented by Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.), Indervir Singh Banipal (Austin, Texas), Nadiya Kochura (Bolton, Mass.) and Sourav Mazumder (Contra Costa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating visual workflow representations by receiving data including text instructions, identifying actions in the instructions, generating a mapping of the actions according to a generative model, the mapping including an action sequence, providing the mapping to a user, re...