ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,981, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Endor Labs Inc (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Determining call graphs to identify which update of a code dependency to use" was invented by Joseph Hejderup (Palo Alto, Calif.), Philip Hamer (Palo Alto, Calif.), Georgios Apostolopoulos (San Jose, Calif.) and Dimitrios Styliadis (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a package is selected and a set of dependencies associated with the package are determined. Individual dependencies in the set of dependencies are used to create a set of partial call graphs that are stitched together to create a complete call graph of the p...