ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,198, issued on June 24, was assigned to Dagger Inc. (Belmont, Calif.).

"Automated application deployment" was invented by Solomon Hykes (San Francisco), Andrea Luzzardi (San Francisco), Erik Sipsma (Seattle) and Sam Alba (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises using a script automation processor that is hosted using a virtual compute instance and a virtual storage instance associated with one or more second non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing one or more second sequences of instructions defining an API implementation of the API, a graph server, and ...