ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,196, issued on May 26, was assigned to Lendingclub Bank, National Association (San Francisco).

"Automatic mock enablement in a multi-module software system" was invented by Eddie Gonzales (Richmond, Calif.), Somesh Benchalli (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Phani Pradeep Benarji Kommana (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Ali Nazari (Brisbane, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments allow a mock-enabled software module to access a store of mock output data. Sets of mock output values ("SMOVs"), stored within the mock output store, are mapped to one or more key input values. When input sent to a mock-enabled software module includes one or more key...