ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,242, issued on July 1, was assigned to Elevance Health Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Automation testing tool framework" was invented by Raja Sanevelly (Cumming, Ga.) and Sam Kyatham (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of testing a web-based application comprising: at a computing device: receiving a test procedure, the web-based application having an associated web-based application code, the test procedure including at least one testing step comprised of at least an action attribute and an element attribute; for each of the at least one testing steps: identifying an action handler based on the action attribute; generating...