ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,498, issued on July 8, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Intermediate widget cache" was invented by Yuvaraj Chandrasekaran (Newark, Calif.), Bryce D. Gelinas (Spokane, Wash.), Ayman Amoodi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sai Divya Panditi (San Jose, Calif.) and Rajeshbabu Ramasamy (Tracy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request is received from a client for data to render a modular contained widget component of an application user interface. Whether the requested data is cached at an intermediary server is determined at the intermediary server, wherein the requested data is based at least in part on one or more data...