ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,134, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Ad-hoc pseudo completion task" was invented by Zachary A. Silverstein (Georgetown, Texas), Logan Bailey (Atlanta), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas) and Fang Lu (Billerica, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments detect a task keyword related to an offloaded task of a task-giver, train a machine learning (ML) model using the task keyword, determine that the task keyword is similar to a historical task by utilizing the trained ML model, record a user input in response to determining that the task keyword is similar to the historica...