ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,762, issued on June 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated cognitive analysis and specialized skills capture" was invented by Lorin Ullmann (Austin, Texas), Denise Bell (Austin, Texas), Eric E. Goodson (Research Triangle Park, N.C.) and Zakary Crapo (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s) monitors tasks performed within the shared computing environment by an authorized user via an interface(s) of a computing system. The processor(s) determines that the authorized user is initiating a given task and queries a reposit...