ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,221, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to DevFactory Innovations FZO-LLC (Dubai, United Arab Emirates).
"System and method for outsourcing projects" was invented by Hemant Shaw (Austin, Texas) and Joseph A. Liemandt (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product for efficiently outsourcing projects, such as software development projects, are presented. A business entity may precisely and succinctly define one or more requests for proposals (RFPs) using predefined service identifiers which specify discrete, short-term projects (e.g., 4 weeks or less) with fixed inputs and outputs an...