ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,487, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Vijay Madisetti (Alpharetta, Ga.).
"Method and system for real-time collaboration, task linking, and code design and maintenance in software development" was invented by Vijay Madisetti (Johns Creek, Ga.) and Arshdeep Bahga (Chandigarh, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A real-time software development method including receiving a code file, generating a shadow code file including the code file content and a link to the code file, receiving an annotation to the shadow code file from a user, and saving the received annotation in the shadow code file as an annotation record, including annotati...