ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,834, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Determining risk based test cases in build routines" was invented by Rahul Jain (Kolkata, India), Manjit Singh Sodhi (Bangalore, India), Shashank Mujumdar (Nagpur, India) and Kalapriya Kannan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor set is configured to receive a plurality of software modules to be analyzed and select one or more software modules that contain modified code. The processor set may further parse product documentation or code comments related to the selected software modules and use the parsed product docume...