ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,502, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sauce Labs Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating synthesized user data" was invented by Emmet James Whitehead Jr. (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Lena Reed (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Afshin Mobramaein Kano (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for generating synthesized user data. A method may involve receiving a data specification schema. A method may involve determining a number of test data objects to be generated. A method may involve defining the test data objects, the defining of each test data object including:...