ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,461, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Citigroup Inc. (New York).
"Context-aware application provisioning" was invented by Patrick Javier (Shinjuku, Japan), Brandon Johnson (Bluffdale, Utah), Christopher Elsey (Irving, Calif.), Shahrad Sassouni (Mill Valley, Calif.) and Martin Cabrera (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system or technique can obtain a request to use software based on user interaction with a graphical symbol on a display of a computing device. A parameter of the software can be identified, where the parameter was established by an administrator of the software and is usable to select a predefined comput...