ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,022, issued on June 30, was assigned to OpenLegacy Technologies Ltd. (Princeton, N.J.).

"Services development and deployment for backend system integration" was invented by Zeev Avidan Herman (Yehud, Israel), Roi Mor (Yehud, Israel), Yehoram Stein (Yehud, Israel), Lior Shemo (Yehud, Israel), Tom Fingerman (Yehud, Israel) and Ori Shalom (Yehud, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Services development/deployment for backend system integration includes metadata-based identification of assets of a backend system, and building metadata specifications as available constructs from which to develop services for deployment, each metadata sp...