US Patent Issued to Workday on July 1 for "Merging code through multiple release branches" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,688, issued on July 1, was assigned to Workday Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Merging code through multiple release branches" was invented by Tom Thuan Cheung (San Jose, Calif.) and Siucheong Kenny Tse (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for managing versions of code. The method includes obtaining a first version of a code, determining whether the first version of the code creates a first conflict with respect to an ancestor version of the code, wherein the ancestor version of the code comprises a set of code that has a dependency relationship on another...