ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,040, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Framework for user-directed profile-driven optimizations" was invented by Teresa Louise Johnson (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Xinliang David Li (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for using profiling to obtain application-specific, preferred parameter values for an application is disclosed. First, a parameter for which to obtain an application-specific value is identified. Code is then augmented for application-specific profiling of the parameter. The parameter is profiled and profile data is collected. The profile data is then analyzed to d...