ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,487, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CrossVista Inc. (Hingham, Mass.).
"Version control system" was invented by Anatole Sagal (Northbrook, Ill.), Dan Schirf (Hanover, Mass.), Oleg Samchik (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Konstantin Golomozyy (Saint Petersburg, Russia) and Sergey Gribovsky (Saint Petersburg, Russia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A version control system implemented in software and executed by one or more processors that provides for change set integration for diverse types of objects. The system may be configured to handle a wide range of objects of different types committed to the version system by storing and/or versi...