ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,724, issued on July 1, was assigned to Nintex USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for customization of workflow design" was invented by Joshua Joo Hou Tan (Newport, Australia) and Alain Marie Patrice Gentilhomme (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed here are systems and methods that allow users, upon detecting errors within a running workflow, to either 1) pause the workflow and directly correct its design before resuming the workflow, or 2) pause the workflow, correct the erred action within the workflow, resume running the workflow, and afterwards apply the corrections to the design of the workflow....