ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,177, issued on July 29.

"Automated backend background testing of webpages" was invented by Suyash Yogeshwar Sonawane (Nashik, India), Yohan Pereira (Mumbai, India) and Jimesh Chokshi (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software development and testing platform (SDTP) includes a browser extension, allowing a developer to run manual or automatic tests on a website. At the same time, a feature of the extension allows for performing automatic background tests, as the developer test workflow generates various webpages of the website. The SDTP captures the webpages, generates copies of the webpages in a backend server and runs ...