ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,280, issued on July 7, was assigned to Appian Corp. (McLean, Va.).
"Automated backward-compatible function updates" was invented by Edward Bross (McLean, Va.) and Matthew Hillard (McLean, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described to allow an Application Development Platform (ADP) to be dynamically updated to provide backward compatibility with existing functions in a manner that both intuitive to user experience and provides advantages to the way in which computing systems implement updates to ensure that users with limited technical expertise can update applications. In some implementations, data indicat...