ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,859, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to WEX Inc. (Portland, Maine).

"Modular, metadata-driven architecture for implementing artificial intelligence agents" was invented by Sonny Truong (Daytona Beach, Fla.), Deepak Yadav (Bangalore, India), Kaushik Kumar Mahato (Bangalore, India), Aditya Rawat (Chicago), Luiz Gustavo Giacomelo Quinelato (San Paolo, Brazil) and Nitin Ahuja (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system may receive file data corresponding to an application programming interface (API) specification for an API. The computing system may extract metadata associated with API specification from the file dat...