ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,939, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Machine learning integration in robotic process automation" was invented by Louis Rakotoarivony (Verrieres-le-Buisson, France) and Xiaohui Xue (Courbevoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automation of robotic process automation design may be improved by integrating machine learning. A screenshot of a user interface of an application to be automated is captured. Then a selection of an area of the screenshot is determined. The area is provided as input to a document information extraction machine learning model configured to output labels and coordinates for ...