ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,026, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Simulation of one or more pipeline jobs in a software deployment pipeline" was invented by Mohan Rao Gadupudi (Hyderabad, India), Avinash Gopisetti Venkata (Bengaluru, India), Afsar Doodekula (Kurnool, India), Rajeev Patil (Bangalore, India), Sagar Sanjeev (Patna, India) and Venkata Chowdary Mutyala (Miyapur-Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for simulation of pipeline jobs in a software deployment pipeline. One method comprises obtaining a request from a user to simulate a pipeline job of a software deployment pipeline...