US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Nov. 25 for "Vetting and/or functional validation of software components" (German, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,766, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Vetting and/or functional validation of software components" was invented by Soeren Finster (Karlsruhe, Germany), Thomas Gamer (Bruhl, Germany), Florian Kohnhaeuser (Riedstadt, Germany), Nicolas Coppik (Darmstadt, Germany) and Piotr Powroznik (Zielonki, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for providing vetting and/or functional validation of software components, comprising: providing a software component and software component data indicating the software component; writing the software component data in a distributed ledger;...