ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,881, issued on July 15, was assigned to DevFactory Innovations FZ-LLC (Dubai Media, United Arab Emirates).

"Defect prediction operation" was invented by Ahmedali Durga (Vadodara, India) and Saket Gurukar (Yavatmal, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for predicting a defect within a computer program comprising: accessing a code base of the computer program, the code base of the computer program comprising a plurality of computer program files; training the defect prediction system, the training including performing a historical analysis of defect occurrence patterns in the...