ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,572, issued on June 2, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method of automated quality assurance and performance testing framework" was invented by Ankit Bansal (Mississauga, Canada) and Venkata Nagendra Prasad Atluri (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for quality assurance and performance testing of supply chain applications and systems. Embodiments include providing a user interface for receiving a test case file that describes one or more actions to be tested and a properties file that maps one or more elements to one or more values, translating a r...