US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 24 for "Predicting user acceptance of features and functions of software product" (California, North Carolina, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,236, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Predicting user acceptance of features and functions of software product" was invented by Nicholas Tsang (Saratoga, Calif.), Adriana Valido (Miami Dade, Fla.) and Tracy Canada (Angier, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for performing user acceptance testing. A virtual environment for virtual sponsor users to interact with a feature or a function of a software product is created. Such virtual sponsor users are virtual representations of actual or real sponsor users. Each of...