ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,030, issued on July 22, was assigned to Khoros LLC (Austin, Texas).
"Software dependency management" was invented by Santosh Shaastry (Bengaluru, India), Narendra Prabhu Gurusiddappa (Mysuru, India), Gunaalan Srinivasan (Alagappapuram, India) and Neel Millind Renavikar (Karad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for software dependency management are described, including receiving a query at a repository configured to store a file identifying a dependency between an application and an update, the query being configured to request retrieval and implementation of the update with the application, parsing the query to identif...