ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,157, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Artificial intelligence (AI) multi-agent framework" was invented by Bo Wen (Chappaqua, N.Y.) and Chen Wang (Chappaqua, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According an embodiment of the present invention, a system processes requests to perform projects. The system comprises one or more memories, and at least one processor coupled to the one or more memories. The at least one processor processes a request in a natural language to perform a project via a hierarchy of machine learning agents. One or more machine learning agents of a management...