ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,485, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Nested build automation for software dependencies" was invented by Jiun-Cheng Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Harish Santhanagopal (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A main build environment may create a container for the main source code and any required utilities when building a software application. This container may be populated with an operating system, a configuration that includes instructions for performing the build, toolchains needed for the build, and/or other utilities. If any dependencies on third-party software module...