US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 23 for "Central package management (CPM) across code repositories" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,986, issued on June 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Central package management (CPM) across code repositories" was invented by Eliyahu Mashhadi Kalimi (Netanya, Israel), Roei Shlomo Menashof (Netanya, Israel) and David Mansour (Yehud, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Central package management (CPM) across code repositories is disclosed. In an example, a primary "props" file in a Git submodule references a version of a NuGet package. A ".props" file in a root directory of each of multiple code repositories references the primary props file in the Git submodule. Each of multiple software ...