ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,256, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Artificial intelligence-aided recommendation for exploratory network analysis" was invented by Vrunda Ravindra Negandhi (Pune, India), Srinivasan S. Muthuswamy (Bangalore, India), Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exploratory network analysis aided by an artificial intelligence recommender includes determining one or more current activities in response to detecting one or more processor-executable instructions input to a computer system by a user. A best next activi...