ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,576, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Functionize Inc. (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

"Software testing" was invented by Jonathon R. Seaton (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Tamas Cser (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is technology relating to testing software and particularly, but not exclusively, to systems and methods for visually validating a step in a software test case and using the visual validation to reinforce an element selection model, the technology provides methods for visually validating a step in a software test case. More particularly, embodiments of the technology provide a method of mapping w...