ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,351, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Robotic process automation using generated semantic information" was invented by Segev Shlomov (Haifa, Israel), Avi Yaeli (Ramot Menashe, Israel), Sami Marreed (Kafer Kanna, Israel) and Raphael Canyasse (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a processor to detect a non-found element from a robotic process automation (RPA) script executed on an application. The processor can analyze the application to extract a group and a set of elements from the application. The processor can calculate a semantic simi...