ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,943, issued on July 29, was assigned to Starbucks Corp. (Seattle).

"Generation of computer-executable instructions based on monitoring network communications of remote computing systems" was invented by Ningyu Chen (Johns Creek, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally relates to a system for identifying a formula to build a customized object. The system may identify one or more attributes of an object based on monitoring remote computing systems. The system may provide a prompt to a computing system based on the identified one or more attributes and the computing system may provide an output indicative of a custom...