ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,317, issued on July 8, was assigned to APPVANCE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods for creating test scripts and/or updating a model of an application" was invented by Kevin Surace (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Luis Carlos Lara Lopez (Escazu Centro, Costa Rica) and Heorhii Mykolayovych Shtefanovych (Kyiv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A natural language test case for an application is automatically converted into a test script by a test script generator. During the generation of the test script, the test script generator may access a blueprint of the application. The blueprint may include a time-evolving model of the application, wh...