US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Sept. 16 for "Software pipeline configuration" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,089, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Software pipeline configuration" was invented by Luis Mirantes (Chevy Chase, Md.) and Ryan McEntee (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, a software pipeline ("pipeline") is configured by the use of gates for progressing an application from one stage to another (e.g., from a development stage to a production stage). A configuration file having a set of attribute values that is descriptive of an application, and a gate mapping file having information associated with the gates to be invoked for different combinations of a...