ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,040, issued on July 22, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta) and AT&T Global Network Services Belgium Luxembourg SP (Vilvoorde, Belgium).

"Quantifying the impact of software code reuse" was invented by Richard Williams (Morganville, N.J.), Christophe Closset (Jehay, Belgium), Lynn Fuhrmann (St. Charles, Mo.) and Catherine Lefevre (Corroy-le-Chateau, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for automated quantification of the impact of software code reuse are disclosed. A method performed by a processing system including at least one processor includes estimating an amou...