ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,719, issued on April 8, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Orchestration for robotic process automation" was invented by Srikanth Vemulapalli (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), Kushang Moorthy (Hyderabad, India), Prabhat Mishra (Hyderabad, India) and Kartik Lanka (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example embodiment may involve persistent storage containing definitions of (i) assignments of bots to endpoints, (ii) software packages for execution by the bots, (iii) schedules for the bots to execute the software packages, and (iv) processes that associate the bots with the software packages and the sch...