ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,232, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Stockholm).

"Architecture, method and system for live testing in a production environment" was invented by Oussama Jebbar (Montreal), Ferhat Khendek (Montreal) and Maria Toeroe (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an architecture, methods and a system for live testing in a production environment. The architecture comprises a platform independent Test Planner for generating a test package in response to receiving an event. Generating a test package comprises selecting test goals, generating a test suite and generating a test plan. The arch...