ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,728, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Procore Technologies Inc. (Carpinteria, Calif.).

"Targeted testing for modular software applications" was invented by Lichun Zhan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example computing platform is configured to identify a subset of source code files for a modular software application that have changed. The computing platform further creates a dynamic test plan comprising a targeted subset of available software tests by (i) obtaining a dependency map that identifies various dependency relationships between the software application's modules, (ii) based on the dependency map, gener...