ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,947, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to OPENMETHODS (Kansas City, Mo.).

"System and method for dynamic business workflow monitoring and regulation" was invented by Shannon Lekas (Cushing, Texas), Gerrit Voorhis Lydecker Jr. (Los Angeles), Carlos Gustavo Colombo (Oceanside, Calif.) and Ankur Kanti Patel (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for dynamic business workflow monitoring and regulation with third party application integration into browser client application, utilizing a workflow engine configured to monitor a plurality of client application data to detect a workflow event, select an approp...