ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,196, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Demand resources" was invented by Stephen Richard Lewallen (Woodinville, Wash.), David Makower (Milpitas, Calif.), Jonathan Joseph Hess (Los Altos, Calif.), Patrick Heynen (Redwood City, Calif.), Terry J. Santamaria (San Francisco), William M. Bumgarner (San Jose, Calif.), David Pickford (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher L. Oklota (San Francisco) and Anthony S. Parker (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for building a software application is disclosed. The method includes: generating a plurality of application resources; ...