ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,946, issued on March 25, was assigned to Automation Anywhere Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Robotic process automation system with hybrid workflows" was invented by Murali Pallikonda (San Jose, Calif.) and Abhijit Kakhandiki (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized task automation system operates to permit automation of processes comprising one or more computer implemented tasks. Software robots may be created and retrieved to automate human user interaction with computer systems. The software robots each take one of three forms: (i) an attended software robot that is encoded to interact with one or more applicatio...