ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,746, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hyland Software Inc. (Westlake, Ohio).

"Computing system for macro generation, modification, verification, and execution" was invented by Edward Hinton (Dover, N.H.), Frank Pulito (Berlin, Mass.), Greg Giannone (Ayer, Mass.), Jonathan Ferrin (Derry, N.H.) and Zachary Chupka (Pelham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automation application is described herein. The automation application executes on a computing device and accesses a macro for a target application. The macro has been generated based upon a sequence of inputs from a user received by the target application that causes the target...