ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,046, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Development and operations server with code mapping module" was invented by Fady Copty (Haifa, Israel), Moshe Israel (Redmond, Wash.), David Trigano (Bellevue, Wash.) and Lara Nicole Goldstein (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed computing system includes a code repository server configured to store code, a code deployment server configured to receive a deployment of the code, and a development and operations (DevOps) server configured to construct a pipeline between the code repository server and the code deployment server. ...