ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,413, issued on March 31, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Computer program specification builder" was invented by Daniel Michael Holdsworth (Canberra, Australia), Jose Ronnie Cruz Galvez (Canberra, Australia) and Stacy Ann Alsides (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for providing a computer program specification builder includes receiving a specification of requirements to be implemented for a computer program. Based on the specification of requirements, the process automatically generates a plurality of stories, wherein each story included in the plurality of stories specifies a desired goal...