ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,686, issued on June 3, was assigned to TUNGSTEN AUTOMATION Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Determining functional and descriptive elements of application images for intelligent screen automation" was invented by Vadim Alexeev (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) and Benjamin De Coninck Owe (Copenhagen, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently disclosed inventive concepts are directed to systems, computer program products, and methods for intelligent screen automation. According to one embodiment, a method includes: determining one or more logical relationships between textual elements and non-textual elements of one or more images of a use...