ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,528, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ATLASSIAN US INC. (San Francisco).

"Service creation and management" was invented by Walter Cooper Chastain (Atlanta), Frank Cariello (Red Bank, N.J.), Reuben Klein (East Brunswick, N.J.) and Paul Edward Smith Jr. (Rockwall, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for service creation and management. A processor can detect an event relating to a service, and access a service creation database to identify a recipe associated with the service. The recipe can define a resource to be used to provide the service. The processor can access an inventory to de...