ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,335, issued on May 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"User assistance through demonstration" was invented by Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India), Kiruthikalakshmi Periasamy (Erode, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Hemant Kumar Sivaswamy (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for handheld demonstration is provided. The present invention may include creating an artificial human. The present invention may include determining that assistance of the artificial human is needed by a user. The present invention ...