ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,227, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Boomi LP (Conshohocken, Pa.).

"Automated generation of semantic software versions for application programming interfaces" was invented by Brian S. Krug (West Chester, Pa.), Beata Chrulkiewicz (Malvern, Pa.), Sigi Kattumangattu John (West Chester, Pa.), Peng Yan (Berwyn, Pa.) and Rahul Agarwal (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Traditionally, version numbers for application programming interfaces are determined manually and do not convey semantic meaning. Accordingly, disclosed embodiments automatically generate a version number for an application programming interface based on the ch...