ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,709, issued on May 27, was assigned to OPSHUB INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"System and method for bidirectional replication of scope changes for work items between applications" was invented by Sandeep Jain (Palo Alto, Calif.), Dimple Jayendra Shah (Ahmedabad, India) and Aparna Garg (Gurgaon, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments herein provide a system and method for bidirectional replication of scope changes for work items between applications are provided. The embodiments herein identify scope change for a given work item and transform the scope change of the work item from a source application to a target application....