ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,503, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Providing a client application built with a design time tool for transforming specific service templates into service specific requests" was invented by Christian Straub (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user control selection of a web page on the client application is received. The user control is for a service type. The client application was built with the design time tool. A specific service template and a value associated with a service abstraction based on the company and the service type are obtained from the desi...