ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,749, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program product for tracking changes to object models for operational systems" was invented by Shirish Katti (Bangalore, India) and Veeranagegowda Shivalingappa (Chitradurga, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extensible object model system for maintaining extensible object models representing operational systems detects changes to the extensible object models generated by an enterprise management system and generates change events identifying and/or characterizing the detected changes, possibly based on publ...