ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,784, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Software development environment prebuild triggered by environment change commits" was invented by Anthony Van Der Hoorn (Portland, Ore.), Srivatsn Narayanan (Bothell, Wash.) and Anuradha Sharma (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system is configured to identify a software development environment (SDE), and generate a first prebuild of the SDE. The computer system is further configured to obtain data associated with a plurality of elements that are related to a state of the SDE, and generate a first hash based on data ...