US Patent Issued to Shopify on June 10 for "Methods and systems for using cached builds in software development" (Canadian, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,099, issued on June 10, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Methods and systems for using cached builds in software development" was invented by Pawan Patel (Stoney Creek, Canada), Daniel Baxter (Stittsville, Canada) and Dominic Lind (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method at a computing system, the method including creating a signature for a software component, the signature being created by hashing source code for the software component; checking a cache to determine whether the signature matches a cached signature; and responsive to the signature matching a cached signature, obtaining a binary for the software compo...