ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,381, issued on March 17, was assigned to OfficeAutomata Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated analysis of computer-detected event activity to improve related task performance" was invented by Jeremiah F. Jeschke (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for performing automated operations that include analyzing computer-detected event activity to improve further computer processing, such as to determine tasks performed that cause the events, to use natural language processing (NLP) to generate textual descriptions of the tasks, and to use the generated descriptions to improve further processing related to the tasks."

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