ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,036, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Anthropic, PBC (San Francisco).

"Multimodal agent for efficient image-text interface automation" was invented by Erich Elsen (San Francisco), Curtis Hawthorne (San Francisco), Augustus Odena (San Francisco), Maxwell Nye (San Francisco), Arushi Somani (San Francisco), Kyle Vigen (San Francisco), Rohan Bavishi (San Francisco), Sagnak Tasirlar (San Francisco), Warut Vijitbenjaronk (San Francisco), Ulas Kirazci (San Francisco), Joe Gershenson (San Francisco) and Shaya Zarkesh (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for image-text agentic interface automation is disclosed. A multimoda...