ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,159, issued on Sept. 16.

"Using a task identifier to identify processing services that have processed a task" was invented by Alexandru Cozma (Bucharest, Romania), Jeffrey J Van Heuklon (Rochester, Minn.), Ionut Dobre (Bucharest, Romania) and Ioana Voicu (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include various operations and a computer program product may cause a processor to perform various operations. The operations include receiving a task to be performed by a software application including numerous processing services, assigning a task identifier to the task before any processing service processes the task...