ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,843, issued on July 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Generating software testing recommendations using machine learning" was invented by William Christopher Watkins (Seattle), Sean Chickosky (Clinton, Mass.) and Christopher Murray Hind (Kent, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Testing recommendations for an updated software build can be generated. For example, a computer system can determine a classification of a modification of a component of a software build into a category based on a text file that indicates the modification of the component. The computer system can also determine a recognition of an enti...