ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,236, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Volkswagen Group of America Investments LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring progression of software versions and detection of anomalies" was invented by Thomas Muehlenstaedt (Bavaria, Germany), Roman Nagy (Unterhaching, Germany) and Yunxin Gu (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for detecting anomalies during software testing. The methods include generating a plurality of test reports for the software program by executing one or more test cases on a plurality of versions of the software prog...