ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,028, issued on May 20, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automatic determination of code customizations" was invented by Vamsi Krishna Madala (San Diego), Brian James Waplington (San Diego) and Santosh Poreddy (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system could include a first set of mappings between application files and version indicators. The application files could be related to a software application. The system could also include a second set of mappings between application files and a first subset of version indicators, where a standardized release of the software application includes appli...