US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Generating potential barriers to a structured process" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,689, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating potential barriers to a structured process" was invented by Natalia Mulligan (Dublin), Marco Luca Sbodio (Dublin), Joao H. Bettencourt-Silva (Dublin), Vanessa Lopez Garcia (Dublin), Gabriele Picco (Dublin) and Marcos Martinez Galindo (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the invention provides a method for generating and ranking potential barriers that prevent completion of a structured process. The method comprises receiving a textual description of the structured process, receiving one or more templates relat...