ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,624, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automation test script generation" was invented by Dong Chen (Beijing), Jia Chan Shen (Ningbo, China), Ju Ling Liu (Beijing) and Ting Ting Zhan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer system, and a computer program product for generating an automation test script. Existing testing documents of a product under test can be acquired. A testing topology describing steps, containers, elements and actions of the test can be generated by extracting keywords in the existing test documents, wherein each elem...