ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,415, issued on April 29, was assigned to JFrog Ltd. (Netanya, Israel).

"Software release verification" was invented by Yoav Landman (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method, system, and device for verifying a software release. To illustrate, as software (e.g., one or more files or artifacts) completes one or more stages of a development process, one or more digital signatures are generated. The one or more digital signatures are generated using private keys that correspond to the stage of the development process that is completed. The one or more digital signatures, and one or more publi...