ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,434, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to OPEN TEXT Corp. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Synchronous business process execution engine for action orchestration in a single execution transaction context" was invented by Kenwood Tsai (Palo Alto, Calif.), Satyapal P. Reddy (San Ramon, Calif.) and Ravikumar Meenakshisundaram (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asynchronous business process specification declared in a procedural markup language comprising an activity flow model and a plurality of activities is received. An indication is received that a subset of the plurality of activities is to be synchronously executed without red...