ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,650, issued on July 1, was assigned to WIX.COM LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"On-demand web-server execution instance for website hosting with custom back-end functionality" was invented by Yoav Abrahami (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ziv Shalom Shalev (Kochav Yair, Israel), Shai Nagar (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Gil Tayar (Givatayim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online website building system includes: an online database configured to store a library of website building elements for configuring a front-end of a webpage, the webpage having been built on a platform including at least common server code; and store rules for accessing code as...