ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,787, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Artisan learning system" was invented by Hemant Kumar Sivaswamy (Pune, India), Pritam Chopdar (Pune, India), Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India) and Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computer processors derive a base corpus by capturing time series haptic data from an artisan performing an artisanal skill comprising a plurality of artisanal actions, wherein each artisanal action in the plurality of artisanal actions is associated with a time interval. The one or more computer processors t...