ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,616, issued on Dec. 9.
"Metadata-driven computing system" was invented by Douglas T. Migliori (Newport Coast, Calif.) and Robert Irvine Logan (Upper Rissington, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Unified modeling, management, automation, simulation, and interoperability of business and device processes utilizing components of a metadata-driven computing system on any device. In an embodiment, an I/O processor on a device receives a type of input dataset, which may be a process dataset. When the input dataset is not a process dataset, the I/O processor creates the process dataset comprising a process from a second process dat...