ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,320, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Automated testing of mobile devices using behavioral learning" was invented by Tor Fredericks (Bellevue, Wash.) and Dong Chen (Lansing, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques that may be used to automate testing of services on mobile devices using visual analysis. In some embodiments, a behavioral model or other machine learning model is trained using training data collected while testers use mobile devices to test the services. During execution of a testing routine on a mobile device, screenshots are obtained of a screen of th...