ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,482, issued on July 1, was assigned to Aurea Software Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Local transparent extensibility and routing slip extensibility for business process execution language" was invented by Michael Theroux (Greenville, N.H.), Andi Abes (Somerville, Mass.), Peter Stewart Easton (Winchester, Mass.) and Gregory M. Lucas (Canbridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to achieve location transparency and routing slip extensibility, a system and a method for orchestrating a web service using Business Process Execution Language are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a message, wherein the message comprises an address...