ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,597, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Zoho Corporation Private Limited (Kancheepuram District, India).

"Role extensions for programming languages" was invented by Sridhar Vembu (Tenkasi, India) and Akshhayaa S (Kanchipuram District, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programming language and compiler support inheritance and type extensions. Program code defines user-defined independent and dependent-link data types. Elements of an independent data type can be inherited by a dependent-link data type that can extend the scope of the independent data type and the scope of one or more elements of the independent data type. Data typ...