ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,585, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Method for dynamic evolution of composite service" was invented by Ying Li (Hangzhou, China), Meng Xi (Hangzhou, China), Jianwei Yin (Hangzhou, China), Shuiguang Deng (Hangzhou, China) and Yihua Mao (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present invention is a method for dynamic evolution of a composite service, which belongs to the field of service composition in software engineering, and comprises a composite service dynamic evolution process, a distributed service evolution mechanism and a multi-layer process evolution mecha...