ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,569, issued on April 1, was assigned to BUGCROWD INC. (San Francisco).
"Rule based de-duplication of software system defects" was invented by Michael Skelton (Pimpama, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system allows users to submit information describing system defects, for example, defects in software systems. The system stores information describing defects for multiple external systems. The system further allows users to specify de-duplication rules for determining duplicate defects submitted by users. A de-duplication rule is associated with an original system defect and specifies regular expressions that are evaluated a...