ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,543, issued on March 24, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Code commit facility for a continuous integration continuous deployment system" was invented by Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Laurentiu Gabriel Ghergu (Bucharest, Romania), Logan Bailey (Atlanta) and Zachary A. Silverstein (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A code commit facility is provided operatively coupled to a continuous integration continuous deployment system to assist in addressing a failing code change during updating of a software application. The code commit facility includes generating discrete code change...