ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,796, issued on May 12, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Testing automation for open standard cloud services applications" was invented by Andrew Leasck (Saint Louis, Mo.), Douglas Paul Schveninger (Wildwood, Mo.), Oded Le'Sage (Austin, Texas), Bryan Strassner (Union, Mo.) and Kelly Carter (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a processing system including at least one processor includes monitoring a software repository for code changes, detecting a code change in a software instance that is stored in the software repository, generating a container image of the software instance i...