ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,015, issued on July 21, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Remote orchestrator for software build and test tool" was invented by Jason Vrablik (Monroe, Wash.), Eben Freeman (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.), Mahmood Miah (Seattle) and Jason Chan (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote build orchestrator for building and testing a software program is described. The remote build orchestrator includes a generator service for generating a build graph from a definition of the software program input to the remote build orchestrator. The build graph includes a plurality of actions, wherein the actions are defined...