US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 22 for "Automatic detection of robotic process automation trigger events" (North Carolina, Minnesota, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,752, issued on April 22, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automatic detection of robotic process automation trigger events" was invented by Joel Garnatz (Waconia, Minn.), Zachary A. Silverstein (Georgetown, Texas), Martin G. Keen (Cary, N.C.) and Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes classifying an incoming communication message as having an instruction classification based on a natural language processing (NLP) analysis of the incoming communication message. The embodiment extracts, responsive to classifying the incoming communication message as ha...