ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,643, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Gusto Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automated test identification and implementation in a database environment" was invented by Ngan Duy Pham (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A codebase system that maintains and utilizes a dynamic mapping between a collection of tests and files within a codebase to ensure error detection and code validity. The codebase system accesses a collection of tests configured to process files within the codebase to identify errors. It then generates a mapping by executing these tests to determine the specific files each test operates on. Upon detecting updates to...