US Patent Issued to Endor Labs on Dec. 16 for "Impact analysis of changes in third-party software components on downstream users" (Dutch, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,031, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Endor Labs Inc (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Impact analysis of changes in third-party software components on downstream users" was invented by Henrik Plate (Valbonne, France), Dimitrios Styliadis (San Jose, Calif.), Georgios Gousios (Delft, Netherlands), Joseph Hejderup (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Philip Hamer (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a server determines that project code calls a component in a third-party library that has been updated. The server determines a first type hierarchy associated with the component, a second type hierarchy associated with the updated ...