ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,622, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ADP Inc. (Roseland, N.J.).

"System and method for recommending computational commands based on a weighted, ranked hierarchical graph" was invented by Roberto Coutinho (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Roberto Silveira (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Guilherme Gomes (Porto Alegre, Brazil) and Carlos Nascimento (Porto Alegre, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for recommending computational commands based on a weighted, ranked hierarchical graph. The system converts a map of intended user actions to canonical actions (commands) into a graph representation. T...