ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,253, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated workflow composer using unmodeled metric-based goals" was invented by Sarath Sreedharan (Tempe, Ariz.), Tathagata Chakraborti (Cambridge, Mass.), Vinod Muthusamy (Austin, Texas), Yara Rizk (Cambridge, Mass.) and Yasaman Khazaeni (Needham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to a programmable computer system that includes a processor system operable to perform processor system operations. The processor system operations include using a workflow composer to perform an automated workflow compo...