ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,730, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Automated chaos engineering" was invented by Niklas Loeser (Heidelberg, Germany), Sergey Smirnov (Heidelberg, Germany) and Paul Janson (Wiesloch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for automated chaos engineering may run an application on an internal production system. The internal production system is probed to determine an initial health status. If the initial health status indicates that the internal production system is in a stable state, a plurality of tests, such as functional tests or load tests, are conducted on the internal production system w...