ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,780, issued on March 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Systems and/or methods for automatic detection and correction of problems in a flow service for an integration platform-as-a-service integration to reduce design time issues" was invented by Santhosh Hari Sridhar (Bengaluru, India) and Garima Tater (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain example embodiments detect and correct errors in services defining an integration of disparate computing components in an integration platform-as-a-service environment. The services are iterated through to identify reference mappings therein. For e...