ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,726, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Mergeable libraries" was invented by Davide Italiano (San Francisco), Damian Malarczyk (Hasselt, Belgium), Frederic Riss (Palo Alto, Calif.), Michael H. Rawdon (Mountain View, Calif.), Mohamadou A. Abdoulaye (San Francisco), Nick Kledzik (Cupertino, Calif.) and Peter Cooper (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using mergeable libraries. One of the methods includes during a build of an executable target, generating the executable target by merging the exe...