US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 7 for "Computer system test parallelization" (New York, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,874, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Computer system test parallelization" was invented by Jeffrey Willoughby (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Milcah Ntende (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Donald Thomas (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Emily Wise (Beacon, N.Y.), John R. Dangler (Rochester, Minn.), Kevin Randolph (Wurtsboro, N.Y.) and Andrew C.M. Hicks (Highland, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with a technique of parallelized computer system testing, a processor develops, on a representative computer system, a plurality of groups of system tests based on test-ordering constraints, where ...