ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,654, issued on June 2, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Update streaming application software" was invented by Vivan Bhalla (Jersey City, N.J.), Santosh Surganiya (Hyderabad, India) and Vandhana Narayanan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein are related to updating streaming application software. For example, data from the streaming application software are transformed into a format for an engine to generate one or more results. The one or more results may comprise information related to the data from the streaming application software."

The patent was filed on Dec. 19...