US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 16 for "Robotic process automation log-in method for authentication" (Texas, Georgia, New York, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,518, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Robotic process automation log-in method for authentication" was invented by Zachary A. Silverstein (Georgetown, Texas), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Logan Bailey (Atlanta), Melanie Dauber (Oceanside, N.Y.) and Jacob Ryan Jepperson (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for persisting a robotic process automation (RPA) session receives, through an RPA authentication engine, a software application site being interacted with by an end user. The RPA authentication engine deploys a bot running the RPA session on the so...