ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,712, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Configuration items for supporting automations and efficacies thereof" was invented by Praveen Minnikaran Damodaran (Hyderabad, India), Sameer Nalla (Hyderabad, India), Rathijit Sarkar (Hyderabad, India), Eric Schroeder (San Diego) and Binny Bhatnagar (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment may involve persistent storage containing one or more tables, wherein the tables include entries that specify automations, wherein the automations are software applications. One or more processors are configured to: receive a specification for ...