ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,629, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to OPEN TEXT Corp. (Waterloo, Canada).
"System for lightweight objects" was invented by Shu-Shang Sam Wei (Danville, Calif.), Roger W. Kilday (Danville, Calif.), Victor Spivak (San Mateo, Calif.), Meir Amiel (Pleasanton, Calif.), Venkat Chandrasekaran (Newark, Calif.), Yik-Ping Li (Fremont, Calif.) and David Buccola (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Creating an object is disclosed. An instance of a sharable type is created. An instance of a lightweight type is created. The sharable type is designated as a parent of the lightweight type. The instance of the sharable type is designa...