ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,758, issued on June 3, was assigned to OPEN TEXT HOLDINGS INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"System and method for centralized configuration of distributed and heterogeneous applications" was invented by Kancharla Anil Kumar (Bangalore, India), Syed Nasir Bellary (Bangalore, India), Sunil Kumar Gollapinni (Bangalore, India) and Praveen Kumar Palisetti (Visakhapatnam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems and methods for the centralized configuration of distributed heterogeneous services are disclosed herein. Embodiments of such systems and methods may be utilized to configure one or more service instances executing in a...