US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 15 for "Automated product workflow usability assessment" (North Carolina, Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,751, issued on July 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated product workflow usability assessment" was invented by Denilson Nastacio (Apex, N.C.), Kevin M Lefebvre (Cary, N.C.), Michele Chilanti (Rochester, Minn.) and Sundari Voruganti (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for assessing a user experience with a product deployment. The approach embeds markers in documentation associated with a product. The approach embeds the markers in the product, correlated with the marker positions in the documentation. The approach calculates metrics, associated with timings betw...