ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,367, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Deployment of meta-model topologies and moderating graph generation" was invented by Marko Radmilac (Bellevue, Wash.), Andrew James Wald (Redmond, Wash.) and Joshua Bryan Wyman Clemons (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meta-model topology comprises a plurality of functions and conforms to a global label schema. A new function not included in the plurality of functions is integrated into the meta-model topology. A particular label of interest that is associated with the new function is identified and the new function is configured such ...