ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,064, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating ChatOps based process orchestration flows" was invented by Sampath Dechu (Acton, Mass.), Neelamadhav Gantayat (Bangalore, India), Avirup Saha (Kolkata, India) and Dharma Teja Atluri (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for automated generation of an electronic form for an electronic messaging subsystem. Historical conversation logs are obtained from the electronic messaging subsystem which comprise a plurality of communication sequences. Communication sequences within the historical conversation ...