US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 17 for "Automated locating of GUI elements during testing using multidimensional indices" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,770, issued on June 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated locating of GUI elements during testing using multidimensional indices" was invented by Jin Shi (Ningbo, China), Lu Chen (Ningbo, China), Tang Xue Bo (Ningbo, China), Ping Yang (Ningbo, China), Meng Qi Chen (Ningbo, China) and Rui Na Liu (Ningbo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for automated locating of user interface elements during graphical user interface testing. When a graphical user interface (GUI) is received for testing, images of the GUI are inputted to a machine learning algorithm, where ima...