ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,821, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for determining critical sequences of actions causing predetermined events during application operations" was invented by Mitansh Rakesh Shah (Seattle), Mahdi Rahmani Hanzaki (Toronto), Wayne Matthias Roseberry (Redmond, Wash.) and Guilherme Augusto Kusano Schick (New Westminster, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to collect an actions list of action sequences in an application leading to a predetermined resulting event, create pairs of the action sequences, apply a fitting alignment to the action se...