ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,797, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Using AI agents to perform actions in a computing network" was invented by Sharad Agarwal (Seattle), Pedro Henrique Bragioni Las Casas (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Rodrigo Lopes Cancado Fonseca (Bothell, Wash.), Manikanta Kotaru (Kenmore, Wash.) and Alok Gautam Kumbhare (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conditions are identified in a telecommunications network. Based on the condition, a data store is accessed to identify an associated executable plan for responding to the detected anomaly. The executable plan is generated by an A...