ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,366, issued on March 11, was assigned to Fidelity Information Services LLC (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Software application development tool for automation of maturity advancement" was invented by Hemendra N. Chonkar (Brookfield, Wis.), Erik Ostermueller (Little Rock, Ark.), Shambhu Sinha (Bangalore, India) and Joseph Prabhakar (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, from a first remote device, an initial first plurality of status metrics corresponding to a first domain, each of the initial plurality of status metrics indicating whether a corresponding parameter of the first domain requires remediati...