ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,940, issued on March 25, was assigned to GROKIT DATA INC. (Stuart, Fla.).

"Automation system and method" was invented by James A. Harding (Issaquah, Wash.), Anthony J. Paquin (Stuart, Fla.), Scott Thibault (Colchester, Vt.) and Jason A. Boatman (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for providing a plurality of data description models corresponding to a plurality of websites to a machine learning process; providing ontology data concerning the plurality of websites to the machine learning process; providing target website data concerning a tar...