ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,959, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Pulumi Corp. (Seattle).
"Language-neutral package schema for a desired state configuration system" was invented by Lucas James Hoban (Seattle), Patrick Duncan Gavlin (Seattle) and Justin Robert Van Patten (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A desired state configuration system receives a package and a corresponding language-independent schema describing the package and its units. Using the schema, the desired state configuration system can generate wrapper code for each of the programming language supported by the desired state configuration system, the wrapper code simplifying calli...