ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,416, issued on May 13.

"Systems and methods for creating software" was invented by Siddhartha Ghosh (London), Sarvaswa Tandon (London), Ralph Bourdoukan (London), Sachin Dev Duggal (London) and Rohan Patel (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online software development platform providing an integrated resource for design, development, and purchase of customer-desired software applications for software projects created by customers. The platform comprising one or more computers configured using computer readable instructions stored in non-transitory computer memory to provide the software development platform, wherein the softwa...