ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,873, issued on June 17, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, S.C.).

"Multimodal retrieval and execution monitoring using rich recipe representation" was invented by Biplav Srivastava (Chapin, S.C.), Vishal Pallagani (Columbia, S.C.), Revathy Chandrasekaran Venka (Columbia, S.C.), Vedant Khandelwal (Columbia, S.C.) and Kausik Lakkaraju (Columbia, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure deals with a system and method for improved representation and retrieval of recipes or workflows. Recipes or workflows such as for preparing food or assembling furniture or performing other complex activities exist as textu...