ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,682, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dynatrace LLC (Waltham, Mass.).
"Smart delivery assistant" was invented by Andreas Tscheinig (Villach, Austria) and Alois Reitbauer (Linz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technology is disclosed for automated risk analysis for the deployment of software component updates in complex microservice architectures. Dependencies and versions of deployment situations in test setup environments and in a target environment are analyzed and compared to identify a version delta between tested and production deployments. Further, test results for test deployments are used to identify and remove unsu...