ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,055, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Indeed Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Centralized orchestration of workflow component executions across software services" was invented by John Bowers (Austin, Texas), Xiqian Han (Kenmore, Wash.), Quanzheng Long (Seattle), Jacob Lucas (Seattle), Russel Mommaerts (Seattle), Jeremy Spencer (Seattle), Hemant Tanwar (Renton, Wash.), David Thrift (Austin, Texas), Adam Ullrich (Austin, Texas) and Christopher Valencia (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orchestration system of or otherwise available to a web platform centralizes the execution of workflow components of a workflow associated with a job p...