ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,332, issued on July 29, was assigned to MASTERCONTROL SOLUTIONS INC. (Salt Lake City).

"Systems and methods for facilitating software validation within a production environment" was invented by Erin Marie Wright (Philadelphia), Mike Lowell Hunter (Heber City, Utah), Kimberly Erin Jackson (Midvale, Utah), Kevin Russell Ballard (Saratoga Springs, Utah) and Chad Milito (Ogden, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production system is configurable to obtain a set of computer-executable instructions that are operable to cause the production system to perform a set of workflow steps. The production system is also configurable to obtain im...