ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,446, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to UiPath Inc. (New York).

"Cloud triggers for scheduling robots" was invented by Ankit Saraf (Bellevue, Wash.), Andrew Hall (Charlottesville, Va.), Remus Rusanu (Redmond, Wash.), Jing Jin (Sammamish, Wash.), Minyi Zhong (Redmond, Wash.) and Jinglong Yang (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one or more embodiments, a method is provided. The method is implemented by a trigger engine stored on a memory as processor executable instructions. The processor executable instructions being executed by a processor. The trigger engine operates as an intermediary for robotic process ...