ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,684, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Vijay Madisetti (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Method and system for real-time collaboration, task linking, and code design and maintenance in software development" was invented by Vijay Madisetti (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Arshdeep Bahga (Chandigarh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of facilitating code development including receiving an updated code file, identifying a stored code file associated with the updated code file and including stored code content, identifying a stored meta-file associated with the stored code file, the stored code file being associated with the updated code file, the s...