ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,524, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Uniform addressing in business process engine" was invented by Edoardo Vacchi (Milan) and Tiago Dolphine (Campinas, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for uniform addressing can include receiving a request to execute a component of an application and assigning a component identifier to the component of the application. It could also include determining a component type identifier of the component and responsive to a determination that the component is instantiated, assigning a component instance identifier to an instance of the component. It...