ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,229, issued on May 19, was assigned to NOVULO R&D B.V. (Enschede, Netherlands).

"Creation and automatic updating of a software application" was invented by Frank Wille (Enschede, Netherlands), Wim Minnen (Enschede, Netherlands) and Erik-Jan Krijgsman (Enschede, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for creating and/or updating a software application, based on a plurality of software components specified in an application specification, and associated with a database, is configured to: select a data element referred to by a software component, the data element being stored in a catalogue and associated with a unique ident...