ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,368, issued on March 4, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Unique signpost strings for automation task names to directly correlate task outputs to specific files and originating lines of source code" was invented by Charles Emery (Hainesport, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automation methods of utilizing signposts assigned to automation tasks in order to correlate automation output with lines of automation source code are disclosed. Automation job(s) are identified/detected (manually or automatically), and then processed. Tasks in the job are identified and unique identifiers (e.g., signposts in and to the...