US Patent Issued to Bank of America on July 29 for "Application dependency visualization" (Texas, North Carolina, Florida, Delaware, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,175, issued on July 29, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Application dependency visualization" was invented by Erik Dahl (Newark, Del.), Pratap Dande (Saint Johns, Fla.), Rahul Yaksh (Austin, Texas), Vishwanath Prasad Karra (McKinney, Texas), Steven Allan Reich (Manalapan, N.J.) and Tileshia Brenda Alford (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application mapping engine may determine dependencies in existing executable application by monitoring and analyzing process flow and data flow of the application during runtime execution. The application mapping engine may generate dependency visualization ...