US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Sept. 8 for "Software robot orchestration engine" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,420, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Software robot orchestration engine" was invented by Allen Vi Cuong Chan (Markham, Canada), Sebastian Carbajales (Mississauga, Canada), Yazan Obeidi (Markham, Canada), Edward Michael Lynch (Toronto), Salman Saleem Sheikh (Sanford, Fla.), John Henry Green (Toronto) and Zachary A. Silverstein (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment configures a software robot to operate collaboratively with a plurality of platforms within a work environment. The embodiment decomposes, via the software robot, a request to perform a task...