ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,774, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CITIBANK N.A. (N.Y.).

"Event-driven resource execution architecture" was invented by Robert Stolte (Jersey City, N.J.), Stephen Saponara (Jersey City, N.J.), Michael Hershkowitz (New York), Gregory Vardi (New York) and Scott Wilson (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Event-driven architecture for resource execution. In some aspects, the system receives a resource request and selects a workflow template to handle the request. Using the selected template, the system creates a first workflow instance that includes a first set of microservices. After executing some microservices,...