ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,685, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Method and system for deployment and management of composite applications" was invented by Sivanaga Ravi Kumar Chunduru Venkata (Irving, Texas) and Ajaykumar Kalla (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a deployment and management of composite application service is provided. The service may allow a third party to develop and on-board logic that manages an application service hosted in an application layer network of a network provider. The logic may incl...