ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,238, issued on June 24, was assigned to UiPath Inc. (New York).

"Artificial intelligence agents for user interface automation to application programming interface automation and vice versa" was invented by Alexandru Alvin Stanescu (Bucharest, Romania) and Michael Aristo Leonard II (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Artificial intelligence (AI) agents for user interface (UI) automation to application programming interface (API) automation, and vice versa, are disclosed. The operations performed by a UI automation on the back-end can be captured by an AI agent, including what communications are sent and the context thereof...