ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,111, issued on June 10, was assigned to British Telecommunications PLC (London).

"Software microservice generation" was invented by Adam Ziolkowski (London), Alistair McCormick (London), Emmanuel Ferreyra Olivares (London) and Johannes Noppen (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of generating a software service for providing required software functionality can include accessing a software component having functionality including and exceeding the required functionality; defining verification test for verifying that the software component includes the required functionality; applying a genetic algorithm...