ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,328, issued on March 18, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Service framework for developing application services in a dependency controlled software stack" was invented by Peter Ljungkrantz (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Jens Andersson (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for a service framework to develop application services, including: providing at least one module of a module stack to a client; determining if the provided module has been modified by the client; determining dependency data, at least including information on the dependency of further modules of the module ...