ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,639, issued on April 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Self-generating robotic process environments" was invented by Laurentiu Gabriel Ghergu (Bucharest, Romania), Alexandru-Liviu Stirbu (Bucharest, Romania), Panagiotis Lazarou (Bucharest, Romania) and Ciprian Constantinescu (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a method of using a computing device to provide regression testing for RPA including monitoring, by the computing device, an RPA bot while the RPA bot is executing a routine in a web test environment. Based on the monitoring, the computing device gen...