ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,301, issued on April 14, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"System level testing using a central test manager" was invented by Edward C. McCain (Campbell Hall, N.Y.), Rajani Guduru (Bengaluru, India), Ali Y. Duale (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Zahed Hossain (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test control process initiates processing of a test case to be used in system level testing of a system unit under test. A query is sent, by the test control process, to a central test manager to determine a history of the test case. The history of the test case is obtained by the test control proce...