ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,685, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Computer-implemented method for verifying a plurality of commits" was invented by Christian Hahn (Hochstadt a.d. Aisch, Germany) and Anja Hentschel (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for verifying a plurality of commits includes the steps: providing the plurality of commits and the master codebase as input data set; combining the plurality of commits and the master codebase into a temporary codebase; performing a plurality of integration tests on the basis of the temporary codebase; releasing and provi...