diff --git a/bin/patches/ovo.patch b/bin/patches/ovo.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..38b245225
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/patches/ovo.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+diff --git a/ovo.sh b/ovo.sh
+index 2da7d7ca..0f83db48 100755
+--- a/ovo.sh
++++ b/ovo.sh
+@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ fclean() { for dir in $(find_tests_folder $@); do make --silent -C "$dir" clean;
+ frun() {
+     SYNC=$(make -v | head -n1 |  awk '$NF >= 4 {print "--output-sync"}')
+     if [ -n "$SYNC" ]; then NPROC=$(nproc 2>/dev/null || sysctl -n hw.ncpu 2>/dev/null || getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN 2>/dev/null); fi
++    # Set wide terminal width to prevent line wrapping in compiler timing output
++    export COLUMNS=1000
+     export MAKEFLAGS="${MAKEFLAGS:--j${NPROC:-1} $SYNC}"
+
+     for dir in $(find_tests_folder $@); do
+@@ -24,9 +26,9 @@ frun() {
+             set +x
+         } &> "$nresult"/env.log
+         # Compile in parallel
+-        make --no-print-directory -C "$dir" exe 2>&1 | tee "$nresult"/compilation.log
++        COLUMNS=1000 make --no-print-directory -C "$dir" exe 2>&1 | tee "$nresult"/compilation.log
+         # But Run serially
+-        make -j1 --no-print-directory -C "$dir" run 2>&1 | tee "$nresult"/runtime.log
++        COLUMNS=1000 make -j1 --no-print-directory -C "$dir" run 2>&1 | tee "$nresult"/runtime.log
+     done
+ }
+
diff --git a/bin/patches/patch-control-file_23.0.txt b/bin/patches/patch-control-file_23.0.txt
index 9bb9edd38..fb85b138c 100644
--- a/bin/patches/patch-control-file_23.0.txt
+++ b/bin/patches/patch-control-file_23.0.txt
@@ -12,4 +12,5 @@ rocprofiler-sdk: rocprofiler-sdk-otf2-url-fix.patch
 babelstream: babelstream-usm.patch
 llvm-project: ATD_ASO_full.patch
 UMT: umt.patch
+OvO: ovo.patch
 rocm-xio: xio.patch
diff --git a/bin/run_ovo.sh b/bin/run_ovo.sh
index 8245a06ad..e9413a51a 100755
--- a/bin/run_ovo.sh
+++ b/bin/run_ovo.sh
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # --- Start standard header to set AOMP environment variables ----
-realpath=`realpath $0`
-thisdir=`dirname $realpath`
+realpath=$(realpath "$0")
+thisdir=$(dirname "$realpath")
 export AOMP_USE_CCACHE=0
 
-. $thisdir/aomp_common_vars
+. "$thisdir"/aomp_common_vars
 # --- end standard header ----
 
 # Setup AOMP variables
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ FLANG=${FLANG:-flang}
 # Use function to set and test AOMP_GPU
 setaompgpu
 
-AOMP_GPU=${AOMP_GPU:-`$AOMP/bin/mygpu`}
+AOMP_GPU=${AOMP_GPU:-$("$AOMP"/bin/mygpu)}
 PATH=$AOMP/bin:$PATH
 CXX=clang++
 FC=$FLANG
@@ -25,7 +25,10 @@ OMP_TARGET_OFFLOAD=mandatory
 
 export AOMP AOMP_GPU PATH CXX FC FFLAGS CXXFLAGS OMP_TARGET_OFFLOAD
 
-cd $AOMP_REPOS_TEST/$AOMP_OVO_REPO_NAME
+# Apply OvO patch before running tests
+patchrepo "$AOMP_REPOS_TEST/$AOMP_OVO_REPO_NAME"
+
+cd "$AOMP_REPOS_TEST/$AOMP_OVO_REPO_NAME" || exit
 rm -f ovo.run.log*
 HALF_THREADS=$(( AOMP_JOB_THREADS/2 ))
 echo "Using $HALF_THREADS threads for make."
@@ -34,7 +37,7 @@ export MAKEFLAGS=-j$HALF_THREADS
 ./ovo.sh run
 ./ovo.sh report --summary
 
-date=${BLOG_DATE:-`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`}
+date=${BLOG_DATE:-$(date '+%Y-%m-%d')}
 if [ "$1" == "log" ]; then
   if [ "$2" != "" ]; then
     prefix=$2
@@ -43,6 +46,9 @@ if [ "$1" == "log" ]; then
     log="ovo.run.log.$date"
   fi
   echo "Log enabled: $log"
-  ./ovo.sh report --failed 2>&1 | tee $log
-  ./ovo.sh report --passed 2>&1 | tee -a $log
+  ./ovo.sh report --failed 2>&1 | tee "$log"
+  ./ovo.sh report --passed 2>&1 | tee -a "$log"
 fi
+
+# Remove patch after test execution
+removepatch "$AOMP_REPOS_TEST/$AOMP_OVO_REPO_NAME"