ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,995, issued on July 15, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Reconciliation of partial configuration items" was invented by Brian James Waplington (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example embodiment may involve determining that a configuration item has failed identification, wherein the configuration item represents computing hardware or software associated with a network; based on the configuration item failing identification, performing a reconciliation procedure, wherein the reconciliation procedure modifies an attribute of the configuration item; determining that the configuration item as modified p...