ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,181, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).
"Semantic script language processing" was invented by Clayton P. Hotson (Kensington, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system provide the ability to process source computer instructions. The source computer instructions are obtained and include input statements that consist of two functions and one or more arguments. The two functions are competing with each other for consumption of the one or more arguments. For an input statement, an inherent numeric precedence weight is determined for each function and argument. All possible legal configurations ...