ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,729, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Software dependency management and testing system" was invented by David P. Bendert (Charlotte, N.C.), Jason Franklin Frye (Monroe, N.C.), Maximilian Fuchs (Charlotte, N.C.), Jennifer Marie Giannoulis (Waxhaw, N.C.), Magesh Punniyamoorthy (Charlotte, N.C.) and Matthew O. Spain (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums for managing the testing of software component dependencies. In some examples, the system may track versions of dependencies; provide an interface t...