US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on June 10 for "Dependency management in software development" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,097, issued on June 10, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Dependency management in software development" was invented by Nate Shepherd (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software project management system can store object data about components of a software development project, such epics, features, and stories. The software project management system can also store dependency objects that reflect dependency relationships between two or more components of the software development project. The dependency objects can track status information about the dependency relationshi...