US Patent Issued to ServiceNow on Dec. 16 for "Centralized configuration and change tracking for a computing platform" (American, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,016, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Centralized configuration and change tracking for a computing platform" was invented by Brian James Waplington (San Diego), Hyung Kim (Kirkland, Wash.), Michael Steven Ludwig (Novi, Mich.), Ravindra Bansal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Benny Van de Sompele (Brussels) and Swapnesh Patel (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment may involve, in response to determining that a software service satisfies a degradation criterion, generating an alert that indicates the software service and a change request specifying that configuration data used by ...