ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,542, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Library development ensuring library compatibility and minimizing dependency conflicts" was invented by Xinpeng Liu (Austin, Texas), Wei Wu (Beijing), Biao Chai (Beijing), Liang Wang (Beijing) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for managing library dependencies. Requests to publish multiple libraries to a public library repository are received. The requests include specifications of respective sets of one or more dependencies of the libraries and respective validation scripts. A dependency version t...