ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,627, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Testing framework with dynamic applicability management" was invented by Yuexi Chen (Foster City, Calif.), Marc Kekicheff (Foster City, Calif.), Jin Xu (Singapore), Cecilia Yusman (Singapore) and Kiat Chun Tan (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and devices for providing dynamic applicability management with respect to a testing framework. Executable code segments can be provided in/with various test procedures that include instructions for testing hardware, software, ca...