ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,002, issued on June 23, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Shared components for configuration data management" was invented by Mark Jason Harun (Brussels), Hyung Kim (Seattle), Ravindra Bansal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Benny Van de Sompele (Brussels) and Swapnesh Patel (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment may involve obtaining a configuration data component that is associated with a first configuration data library and the configuration data component may indicate one or more parameters of a software service, providing a request for the configuration data component to be used in a second co...