ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,385, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GitLab Inc. (San Francisco).

"Adaptively generated program model" was invented by Julian Thome (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg), Isaac Dawson (Yokohama, Japan), James Johnson (Sammamish, Wash.), Zach Rice (Riverside, Ill.), Daniel Searles (Spearfish, S.D.), Lucas Charles (Portland, Ore.), Mark Art (San Francisco), Taylor McCaslin (Bozeman, Mont.), Thomas Woodham (Greer, S.C.) and Todd Stadelhofer (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to adaptively generate a program model. Source code of a program to be tested for code issues, and a set of predefined patterns to be test...