ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,576, issued on March 24, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Test support apparatus and method for testing web applications" was invented by Hiroyuki Kirinuki (Tokyo), Haruto Tanno (Tokyo) and Yu Adachi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test support apparatus according to an embodiment is a test support apparatus that supports a test with respect to a Web application, the test support apparatus including: a suspicion level calculating unit which calculates, using information related to an operation performed on a screen of the Web application and information related to a bug of the Web application, a suspicion level representin...