ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,949, issued on April 1, was assigned to OPEN TEXT Corp. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Dynamically controlling case model structure using case fragments" was invented by Ashraf Ali Syed (Bangalore, India), Sachin Gopaldas Totale (Pleasanton, Calif.), Satyapal Reddy (San Ramon, Calif.), Swathi Natarajan (Bangalore, India) and Prasad Thotakura (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Case fragment management includes obtaining a case model definition for a case, and generating a case model from the case model definition. Generating the case model includes obtaining a case fragment expression, executing the case fragment expression using ...