ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,079, issued on June 23, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Using hierarchical models and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve recognition of graphical objects" was invented by Gaoyang Zhou (Shanghai), Jun Zhao (Shanghai) and ChengZhe Xu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first graphical object in a graphical user interface is identified using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm. The graphical user interface comprises a second graphical object that was not properly identified by the AI algorithm. Source code is retrieved from a hierarchical model of the graphical user interface. A determination is...