ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,982, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LPL FINANCIAL LLC (Boston).

"Framework for digital workers" was invented by Prashant Sarode (Charlotte, N.C.) and Swapnil Paranjape (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, task data characterizing a request to perform a task can be received at a first layer within a computing environment and from one of a collection of applications forming a digital worker. A plurality of state machines can be instantiated by the first layer based on the received task data. The instantiated plurality of state machines can be executed by the first layer, and the executing of the instantiate...