ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,982, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"User experience rendering for intelligent workflow" was invented by Jennifer M. Hatfield (San Francisco), Lucia Larise Stavarache (Columbus, Ohio) and Stan Kevin Daley (Espanola, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Artificial intelligence is employed to assess a user's workflow on a task by receiving data regarding a workflow of a user completing a task, and assessing the data to identify attributes of the workflow that is expressed in a series of steps. The steps of the workflow are analyzed to identify areas of improvement. Augmentations ma...