ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,956, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NTT DATA Services LLC (Plano, Texas).

"Automatic discovery and enterprise control of a robotic workforce" was invented by Tanvir Khan (Allen, Texas), Harsh Vinayak (Gurgaon, India), Dhurai Ganesan (Chennai, India), Sankar Chandrasekaran (Chennai, India), Gowrishanker Pari (Chennai, India) and Ujjwal Sharma (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method includes receiving bot presence data from a bot discovery agent executing in a computing environment. The method also includes determining, based on the bot presence data, whether an unauthorized bot is present in the c...