ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,250, issued on May 19, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Version management systems, methods, and interfaces" was invented by Melissa Niswonger (College Park, Md.) and Juan Alejandro Gallegos (Omaha, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A version management system can manage a set of application programming interface (API) calls to different software file case systems including a first software file case system and a second software file case system. In response to certain commands and functionality, the version management system obtains from the set of API calls to the different software file case system...