ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,037, issued on July 21, was assigned to HSBC Technology and Services (USA) Inc. (Arlington Heights, Ill.).
"Automated developer governance system" was invented by Jonathan Michael Pugh (Sheffield, Great Britain), Frank McGrath (London), Easwaran Neelakandan (East Brunswick, N.J.) and James Golden (Township of Washington, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system receives a data object representative of a code repository for an application. The data object includes source code of the application and artifacts for satisfying a governance policy defined by an entity of the computing system. The computing system causes the d...