ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,445, issued on March 24, was assigned to AVC INNOVATIONS LLC (Spearfish, S.D.).

"Method, system and computer program product for coding, building, and automating a state machine app with distributed state services" was invented by Bob G. Schlicher (Knoxville, Tenn.), David J. Todd (Spearfish, S.D.), Niels C. Skjoldager (Seminole, Fla.) and Shaikha Dheya Ebrahim Al Khalifa (Manama, Bahrain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method codifies data, programs, rule-based, state-based application software for automatic deployment, in distributed computing environment, including programming/assignment Production Rules as code for processing d...