ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,688, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to The PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Chaos event testing using simulated traffic feed and chaos events simultaneously" was invented by Erik James Anderson (Pittsburgh), Connor Daniel Thompson (Pittsburgh), Rocio Milagros Roman Siuce (Sacramento, Calif.), Jonathan DuComb Edwards (Pittsburgh) and Michael Robert William Minella (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer systems and methods perform a chaos experiment for a target application. The computer system: (i) generates, for the chaos experiment, a simulated traffic stream for a non-production version of the target a...