ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,066, issued on July 15, was assigned to ATLASSIAN PTY LTD. (Sydney) and ATLASSIAN US INC. (AUSan Francisco, Canada).

"Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for generating interaction vectors within a multi-component system" was invented by Jascha-Alexander Stephan Zittel (Sydney), Andrew John Freedman (Sydney), Neil Dunbar (Sydney), Sae Ra Kang (Sydney), Luke Andrew Esther (Sydney), Chris Jo Stivers (Mountain View, Calif.) and Taylor Timothy Pechacek (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, or computer program products provide for providing interaction vectors related to a component management system...