ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,724, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Visualizing workflow processes with decision branches" was invented by Jan Ove Kristian Olsson (Castro Valley, Calif.), Min Wu (Pleasanton, Calif.), Yaron Guez (San Diego), Nikhil Dvivedi (San Diego), Jacob S. Burman (Carlsbad, Calif.), Brian P. Bimschleger (Highland Park, Ill.) and Michel Abou Samah (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer workflow including computer managed activities organized in an execution ordering and one or more conditional branching decision nodes is specified. One or more activity execution conditions associated wi...