ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,882, issued on July 15, was assigned to Webomates Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Creating an optimal test suite" was invented by Aseem Bakshi (Stamford, Conn.), Mark Sawers (Stamford, Conn.) and Ruchika Gupta (Stamford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for creating an optimal test suite. The system may receive code coverage data from a set of testing channels. Further, a combined dataset is created by merging the code coverage data received from the set of testing channels. The combined dataset is analyzed to identify a line of code being executed by two or more test cases corresponding to two or more testing chan...