ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,730, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Error context for bot optimization" was invented by Chidambaram Arunachalam (Apex, N.C.), Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.) and Gonzalo Salgueiro (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an illustrative method herein may comprise: obtaining, by a device, a plurality of indications of errors experienced by a bot performing tasks, wherein each of the plurality of indications includes contextual information of a corresponding error; determining, by the device, correlated errors among the errors experienced by the bot; aggre...