US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Feb. 4 for "Build system for securely building and deploying a target build artifact" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,034, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Build system for securely building and deploying a target build artifact" was invented by Owen Christopher Cliffe (Bath, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A build system is disclosed that identifies the inputs used by a build process for securely building and deploying a piece of software to production. The build system comprises a build container and a build proxy server. The build container receives a set of initial inputs for performing a build and generates a build output (e.g., a target artifact) as a consequence of performing ...