ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,438, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Fulcrum Global Technologies Inc. (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

"Digital assistant for completion of timecards" was invented by Ahmed Farouk Shaaban (South Barrington, Ill.) and Venkat Thandra (South Barrington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of time entry on a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computer system includes generating a chat screen, generating at least one message on the chat screen to initiate dialogue for creation of a draft timecard, receiving at least one first user entry from a user via the chat screen, the at least one first user entry including information identifyi...