ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,497, issued on May 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Dynamic factoring and composing workflows" was invented by Michael Johnston (Dublin) and Vasileios Vasileiadis (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are provided for dynamically factoring and composing workflows in a computing environment by one or more processors in a computing system. Subgraphs (e.g., blocks) of workflows stored in a workflow library may be identified. The subgraphs may be functional blocks such as, for example, the functional blocks may perform a logical task. Similarities and relationships may be ide...