ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,199, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Open Text Corp. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Case leaf nodes pointing to business objects or document types" was invented by Satyapal P. Reddy (San Ramon, Calif.), Muthukumarappa Jayakumar (Mountain House, Calif.), Ravikumar Meenakshisundaram (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Muneer Ahmed (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Case management systems and techniques are disclosed. In various embodiments, a trait definition is received that associates with a case node comprising a case model an object associated with an external system, e.g., a document or other content object and/or a business or other...