ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,403, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Computer-automated processing with rule-supplemented machine learning" was invented by Peter Eberlein (Malsch, Germany) and Volker Driesen (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are directed to systems and methods for executing a computer-automated process using trained machine learning (ML) models. A computing system may access first event data describing a first event. The computing system may execute a first ML model to determine an ML characterization of the first event using the first event data. The computing system may also apply...