US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 16 for "Calling a plugin and using a merging policy for mitigating version conflicts" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,343, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Calling a plugin and using a merging policy for mitigating version conflicts" was invented by Lei Pan (Mountain View, Calif.), Vasily Tarasov (Moorpark, Calif.), Frank Schmuck (Campbell, Calif.), Marc Eshel (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jeremy Andrew Cohn (Tucson, Ariz.) and D Scott Guthridge (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes performing a predetermined first data merge process in response to a determination that a version conflict exists between a plurality of vers...