ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,560, issued on June 2, was assigned to Citigroup Inc. (New York).

"Feature management for software deployment" was invented by Adar K Danait (Irving, Texas), Ajay Kumar Tumukuntala (Irving, Texas), Akshatha Ramesh Shenoy (Irving, Texas), Ashwin Perappa Prashanth (Irving, Texas), Danielle A La Rue (Jacksonville, Fla.), Flora P Sah (Boston), Heather Marie Robison Joshi (Irving, Texas), Maneet Sharma (Irving, Texas), Pavithra Araleri Visweswariah (Irving, Texas), Radhika Shetty (Jacksonville, Fla.), Varaha Venkata Ganeswara Pitla (Irving, Texas) and Vitthal Ramling Betgar (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of software cr...