ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,036, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).
"Service virtualization" was invented by Saraf Uddin Talukder (New Hyde Park, N.Y.) and Jalil Vaidya (Little Falls, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application in production may communicate with one or more heterogeneous services, including requesting and receiving data from a one or more data sources. The communication between the application and the services can include complicated scenarios making facilitating end-to-end testing of the application difficult. The disclosed service virtualization solution works in two stages of 'record and replay' ...