US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Dec. 9 for "Ontology based workflow automation and execution" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,840, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Ontology based workflow automation and execution" was invented by Ossama Mahmoud (London, Canada), Sonali Dey (London, Canada), Nikhil Bhambra (Oakville, Canada), Jamil Tahsin Samouh (Mississauga, Canada), Isabella Olivares (Mississauga, Canada), Shayne Yi Hsien Lin (Toronto), Yazan Obeidi (Markham, Canada), Sebastian Carbajales (Mississauga, Canada), John Henry Green (Ontario, Canada), Salman Saleem Sheikh (Sanford, Fla.), Yara Rizk (Cambridge, Mass.), Mahmoud Mahmoud (Mississauga, Canada) and Allen Vi Cuong Chan (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent &...