ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,639, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Express Scripts Strategic Development Inc. (St. Louis).

"Automated service level objectives for batch data" was invented by Kuochen Li (Avon, Conn.) and Ramesh Karnam (Marlton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementing Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements for batch processes. An enterprise workflow platform receives the SLA requirements via a batch administration form for scheduling the batch processes. The enterprise workflow platform persists the SLA requirements in a knowledge base. A batch monitoring tool is integrated with the enterprise workflow platform to retrieve the SLA req...