ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,172, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Intelligent interface for automation multitasking" was invented by Enrico James Monteleone (San Jose, Calif.), Chandrika R (Chennai, India) and Gargi Roy (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for intelligently managing task automation across multiple tasks and multiple automated assistants are provided. In one aspect, an intelligent multitasking system includes: a context manager configured to use human-centric input data to determine a context of a user; an intent mapper configured to map human communication to automate...