ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,976, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Insight Direct USA Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Runtime dependency configuration utility" was invented by James Wilcox (Merrimack, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is presented for executing an application having multiple mutually-exclusive possible dependencies associated with an interface. First, a repository of implementations is scanned using a configuration utility to identify a subset of the implementations tagged for usability with the configuration utility. The configuration utility identifies keys within each of the subset of implementations, and filters the implementations by th...