ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,221, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Management of reconciliation and reporting workflow using robotic process automation" was invented by Heather May Jeske (Etobicoke, Canada) and Olga Chirdaris (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed exemplary embodiments include computer-implemented processes that manage report and reconciliation workflow through a virtualization of robotic process automation (RPA) techniques. In some examples, an apparatus obtains reporting data that characterizes a status of an obligation during a first temporal interval, and perform operations that request...