ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,361, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Automatic generation of process instructions from log files" was invented by Manesh Saini (New York), Carleton Jay Lindgren Jr. (Denver), James Hubbard (Charlotte, N.C.), Ronald Sobey (Porter, Texas) and Winthrop Treynor Smith (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system may access log files that log data associated with prior performances of a process by users. Such data may be recorded by one or more computing systems based on tracking user interactions with the one or more computing systems to perform the process. The computing...