ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,458, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INTERNATIONAL LLC (Duluth, Ga.).

"Application framework for managing information technology infrastructure" was invented by Brandon Burrell (Suwanee, Ga.), Muthukkumaran Ramalingam (Duluth, Ga.), Stefano Righi (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and Paul Rhea (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application framework for managing information technology ("IT") infrastructure includes components that enable jobs to be defined and executed that perform IT infrastructure management tasks. Jobs are defined utilizing a user interface ("UI") that includes a first pane that prov...