ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,931, issued on March 17, was assigned to Harness Inc (San Francisco).
"Intelligent and efficient pipeline management" was invented by Srinivasa Rao Gurubelli (Fremont, Calif.), Uri Scheiner (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Lawrence Wilfred (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pipeline management system that allows for creating and managing pipelines and pipeline execution. The system allows a user to create pipeline stages, steps for the pipeline stages, and commands for the pipeline steps. The system efficiently allows users to create and manage multiple pipelines by allowing attributes of commands, such as for example variables...