ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,301, issued on June 17, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Trace-based survey for pull request workflow" was invented by Stephen James Day (Kirkland, Wash.), Akhil Acharya (Cambridge, Mass.), Bianca Tamayo (San Francisco), Ian Chiles (Charleston, S.C.), Andrew Lee (Mountain View, Calif.), Victor Robertson (San Francisco) and Chun-Shao Chu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An infrastructure system facilitates trace-based surveys to query users their experiences with pull request workflows. For example, the infrastructure system may receive from a client device associated with a user a pull request ...