ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,691, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automated software testing using natural language-based form completion" was invented by William Tigard Baker (Redmond, Wash.), Swamy V. P. L. N. Nallamalli (Bothell, Wash.), Dallas Allen Warren (Redmond, Wash.), Piyush Gupta (Sammamish, Wash.) and Aaron Edward Dietrich (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure include methods and systems for performing automated software testing. The method can include executing software under test and determining that the user interface of the software includes a textual inp...