ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,571, issued on June 2, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Risk analysis of test failures that occurred during a testing phase of a continuous integration pipeline" was invented by Stephen Kenneth Benjamin (Boston), Xueqin Zhang (Atlanta), Forrest Babcock (Raleigh, N.C.), David Michael Eads (Raleigh, N.C.), Deep Mistry (Trenton, N.J.), Devan Goodwin (Halifax, Canada) and Ferdinand Dennis Periquet (Concord, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some examples of the present disclosure relate to risk analysis of test failures that occurred during a testing phase of a continuous integration pipeline. In one particular example, a ...