ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,559, issued on July 21, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automated preventative controls in digital workflow" was invented by Anushree Shrivallabh Randad (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ravindra Bansal (Belmont, Calif.), Tamir Segal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Abhi Sekhar Thyadi (Hyderabad, India), Hari Krishna Vutukuru (Hyderabad, India), Samujjwal Bhandari (San Jose, Calif.), Utkarsh Jain (Hyderabad, India), Vasant Balasubramanian (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lal Narayanasamy (Pleasanton, Calif.), Giora Tamir (San Diego), Rama Raghava Reddy Bandi (Livermore, Calif.) and Prabhat Kuchibhotla (East Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trade...