US Patent Issued to Red Hat on July 22 for "Providing access to metadata modifications to facilitate software build reproduction" (Irish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,034, issued on July 22, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Providing access to metadata modifications to facilitate software build reproduction" was invented by Pierre-Yves Chibon (Saint-Pol-de-Leon, France) and Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Software builds can be constructed based on previously recorded modifications to metadata. For example, a computing device can record modification logs. Each of the modification logs can be associated with a modification to metadata for a software repository. The computing device can also receive, from a client device, a request for the metadata for ...