ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,153, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Automated testing of mobile devices using visual analysis" was invented by Dong Chen (Lansing, Mich.), Tor Fredericks (Bellevue, Wash.), Anqi Luo (Redmond, Wash.) and Pei Zheng (Sammamish, Wash.).

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 machine learning model is trained using interaction data received from a number of mobile devices by correlating user selections with visual elements (e.g., icons). During execution of a testi...