ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,419, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Task management with image-capture monitoring of user actions" was invented by Robert St Pierre (Campbell, Calif.) and Jai Suri (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for presenting a user with instructions for completing tasks based on monitoring images of user actions are disclosed. A system monitors user actions to identify a next operation in a set of operations to present to a user. The system presents to the user instructions for completing the next operation. The system monitors user actions and may also monitor ...