ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,522, issued on July 8, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for monitoring software items based on generated contracts" was invented by Martijn Van der Schaaf (Zuidland, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and method for monitoring software items using a generated contract, the method including: transmitting a quote for viewing on a computing device associated with a first person, wherein the quote includes a list of software items included in a transaction; in response to receiving an approval of the quote by the first person, generating a con...