ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,744, issued on May 27, was assigned to Monarch Specialty Group Inc. (Chicago).

"Technologies for enabling rule engines to guide end users in completing transactions with user actions" was invented by Stephen Barrett Cichy (Chicago) and Markus Daniel Bockle (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure enables a rule engine programmed for (i) expressing complex logic, (ii) handling time/event synchronization, (iii) providing insights into rule execution, and (iv) modeling uncertainties, while also enabling user actions to authenticate, approve, initiate, or decline certain workflows. Such configuration is technologically adv...