ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,598, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Transfer control step for digital workflows" was invented by Jingfei Chen (San Francisco), Brian P. Bimschleger (Highland Park, Ill.), Jacob S. Burman (Carlsbad, Calif.), Jennifer M. Lyons (San Diego), Harry Thomas Nelson (San Diego), Alberto Alvarado Jimenez (San Diego), Reema Shah (San Diego), Enrico Cruz (San Diego) and Andrew K. Fry (Encinitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A specification of one or more steps of a digital workflow specified using a graphical user interface is received. An indication of a program transfer control step in the...