ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,025, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to CDW LLC (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

"Visual programming methods and systems for intent dispatch" was invented by Joseph Kessler (Grayslake, Ill.), Suresh Bellam (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Andre Coetzee (Cary, Ill.) and Dan Verdeyen (Glenview, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system includes a processor; an input device; and a memory containing instructions that, when executed, cause the computing system to receive a data description corresponding to a graphical user interface control; identify the graphical user interface control using a trained convolutional neural network; and display an ac...