ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,103, issued on March 4, was assigned to Bestow Inc. (Dallas).

"Immutable workflows for the encapsulation and modularization of processes" was invented by Scott Tsuchiyama (Dallas), Matthew Planchard (Austin, Texas) and Asim Ranginwala (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, this disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods including receiving a workflow defining (1) a plurality of parameters to be defined during completion of a digital applications, (2) a sequence of operations, and (3) one or more evaluation rules, the workflow having been defined by an external system and received at an ...