ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,780, issued on July 15, was assigned to OPEN TEXT SA ULC (Halifax, Canada).

"Systems and methods of multi-stage configuration service for policy-driven transformation" was invented by Jeremy Duke (Gilbert, Ariz.), James Worthington Martin (Phoenix) and Bradford Stanley Morris (Peoria, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-stage configuration service running in a cloud computing environment receives a transformation request from a client device. Based on a policy identified in the transformation request, the multi-stage configuration service constructs a configuration file containing key-value pairs representing settings of a r...