ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,528, issued on March 11, was assigned to Boomi LP (Conshohocken, Pa.).

"Automated and scalable monitoring of changes to software services" was invented by Dana Burkart (San Jose, Calif.), Eli Annoni (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Alejandro Flores (Mongaup Valley, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Currently, changes to third-party software services, such as the deprecation of certain components, must be manually monitored. Accordingly, embodiments are disclosed to automatically monitor changes to such services in a scalable manner. In particular, monitors may be configured to scrape webpages at URLs associated with deprecation or other...