ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,368, issued on July 8, was assigned to Express Scripts Strategic Development Inc. (St. Louis).

"Application infrastructure for maintaining production and non-production environments using a segregated schema" was invented by Ghanshyam Kumar (Orlando, Fla.), Anith Larson (Lakeland, Tenn.), Velchakravarthi Sadasivam (Austin, Texas) and Senthan Amudan Arumugam (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system includes a database configured to store a first rule schema, a second rule schema and a data schema, the first and second rule schemas each configured to store a compiled code base, and the data schema configured to st...