ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,938, issued on March 18, was assigned to Nextworld LLC (Greenwood Village, Colo.).

"Automated testing for metadata-driven custom applications" was invented by Michael Elges (Littleton, Colo.), Alec P. Ruth (Parker, Colo.) and Reece M. Hughes (Centennial, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for assisting with testing custom application software are provided. An input that modifies an application action may be received. A request to execute a test action corresponding to the application may be received. One or more test steps for executing the test actio...