ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,595, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Avalara Inc. (Seattle).

"Accessing stored code strings for execution to produce resources for diverse situations" was invented by Mark Janzen (Wichita, Kan.) and Gregory T. Kavounas (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software configuration includes to store, in a strings memory, combinations of possible source locations and of possible destination locations that are subject to rules pairwise, and to further store respective code strings in association with the respective combinations. The possible locations may be stored by alphanumeric designators, for convenience in looking up ...