US Patent Issued to UiPath on Jan. 20 for "Intent-based automation" (Romanian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,620, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to UiPath Inc. (New York).

"Intent-based automation" was invented by Justin Marks (Redmond, Wash.), Theodore G. Kummert (Woodinville, Wash.), Bogdan Ripa (Bucharest, Romania) and Gregory Barello (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intent-based automation that discovers automatable tasks and/or determines task variants in data is disclosed. Task capture data may be utilized to determine task variants in task mining data. Semantic understanding of user actions by artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) model(s), for example, may be applied to determine the intent of the user rather th...