US Patent Issued to SAP on July 28 for "Code authentication in a git repository" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,855, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Code authentication in a git repository" was invented by Andreas Jahr (Karlrsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments implement a central commit registry to ensure integrity of code within a Git repository, and the authentication of that code with the requirements of a particular computing system. The git repository stores snapshots of the software code as git commits while a version repository stores git commit files that contain information to uniquely identify git commits that originated from the source system. The git commit files are created wit...