ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,440, issued on May 13, was assigned to ADP Inc. (Roseland, N.J.).

"Configuration properties management for software" was invented by Fabrice Colas (Nanterre, France) and Remi Noblet (Nanterre, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method implemented on a computer system, and computer program product for managing properties of software to be deployed for running on an operations system. A user interface prompts an operator to input property information to define properties of the software. The property information for the properties of the software input by the operator is stored in a properties database. Property informatio...