ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,226, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AppLand Inc. (Weston, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for intelligent interrogation and tagging of a codebase" was invented by Elizabeth Lawler (Weston, Mass.) and Kevin Gilpin (Weston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices are provided to intelligently interrogate and tag a codebase. A behavioral model of the codebase is accessed that represents a run-time behavior of the codebase. The behavioral model and codebase are interrogated to identify locations for placing bidirectional tags within the behavioral model and the codebase. The bidirectional tags include links ...