ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,933, issued on May 5, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Intelligent workflow for repair skills augmentation" was invented by Mark J Ludlow (Fairfield, Conn.), Michael Jack Martine (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Lucia Larise Stavarache (Columbus, Ohio), Sarah Diane Green (Chandler, Ariz.), Stan Kevin Daley (Espanola, N.M.) and Ira L. Allen (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to repair an object is received via at least one network. Based on obtaining the request via the at least one network, an intelligent workflow is executed on at least one computing device to generate instructions to be used by...