ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,599, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Inventus Holdings LLC (Juno Beach, Fla.).

"Energy management platform" was invented by Alexander Heiko Weber (Hamburg, Germany), Nicholas D. Schober (Minneapolis), Benjamin D. Grindy (Minneapolis), Justin D. Voyt (Woodbury, Minn.) and Matthew D. Briercliffe (Corcoran, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory machine-readable medium includes machine-readable instructions for a cloud computing system. The system comprises a licensing manager that stores licensing data for a plurality of software application projects, authorizing particular accounts to access a subset of the projects....