ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,638, issued on April 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for selecting test combinations of hardware and software features for feature validation" was invented by Yingying Chen (Redmond, Wash.), James Lee Wooldridge (Redmond, Wash.), Amitabh Nag (Redmond, Wash.), Josh C. Moore (Redmond, Wash.) and Praveen Kuma Arjunan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for selecting test combinations of hardware and software features for product validation. In examples, a test scheduler of a system receives metrics as...