US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 30 for "Lifecycle management in collaborative version control" (Chinese, Irish, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,594, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Lifecycle management in collaborative version control" was invented by Jun Wang (Xian, China), Bei Chen (Blanchardstown, Ireland), Yufang Hou (Dublin), Akihiro Kishimoto (Tokyo), Si Er Han (Xian, China), Jing Xu (Xian, China), Ji Hui Yang (Beijing), Jing James Xu (Xian, China) and Xue Ying Zhang (Xian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: receiving, by a computing device, an issue definition of an issue with software; generating, by the computing device and based on the issue definition, an urgency score for the issue, th...