ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,553, issued on April 22, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Model-based process to validate build integrity of software products" was invented by Jeremy W. Long (Herndon, Va.) and David Kenneth Eggen (St Louis Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for a model-based process to validate build integrity of software products. A build integrity validation system generates a build artifact model including one or more software components extracted from a build artifact resulting from a software build process of source code and generates a source code including one or more software components...