ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,018, issued on March 24, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"System and method for creating a service instance" was invented by Michael Patrick Joseph Whitham (Montreal) and Ryan Musgrave (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and system for creating a service instance are described. The computer-implemented method may include receiving a request to create a service instance for a service to be executed on a server; determining one or more server operations to complete one or more service configuration tasks in creating the service instance; calculating an estimated time to complete the one or more ...