ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,777, issued on June 3, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).

"Automatic workflow generation and optimization" was invented by Aditi Kulkarni (Bangalore, India), Anubhav Gupta (Meerut, India), Aravind Nagaraj (Bangalore, India), Ashwini Surve (Mumbai, India), Geetika Pant (Lucknow, India), Saikat Banerjee (Bangalore, India), Rejeesh Katathanadan (Bangalore, India), Raghavendra Meharwade (Bangalore, India), Rajmohan Palanikumar (Madurai, India), Koushik M. Vijayaraghavan (Chennai, India), Rajesh Nagarajan (Chennai, India) and Mark Lazarus (Caulfield, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a...