ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,192, issued on April 29, was assigned to CITIBANK N.A. (N.Y.).

"Software development lifecycle traceability tool" was invented by Mayank Vinayaka (Irving, Texas), Ryan Peterman (Jacksonville, Fla.), Badari Narayana Shanka Prasad (Irving, Texas), Richard Lawton (Irving, Texas), Vitthal Ramling Betgar (New York), Adar Danait (New York), Balaji Kumar (New York), Robin J. Kurian (New York), Maneet Sharma (New York) and Anantha Veerasami (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a software development lifecycle traceability tool. In some aspects, the system may implement a traceability tool that generates a system da...