ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,984, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Software development process with large-scale feature estimation model" was invented by Dynesy Dianming Yuan (Shanghai) and Flavio Marim (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in an illustrative embodiment comprises configuring a software development process to include a plurality of features in respective distinct feature domains, and for each of the features, decomposing the feature into a plurality of epics, determining a number of sprints associated with each of the epics of the feature, determining a total number of sprints across all o...