ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,331, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Dynatrace LLC (Boston).
"Structured software delivery and operation automation" was invented by Alois Reitbauer (Linz, Austria), Dirk Wallerstorfer (Linz, Austria) and Andreas Grabner (Linz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for the structured automation of the delivery and operation of software functionality is proposed. A declarative notation approach is used to describe automation sequences independently from concrete automation tools and services that may be used to execute the automation sequences. An automation service abstraction layer is introduced that hides ...