ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,769, issued on March 11, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).
"Program analyzing apparatus, program analyzing method, and trace processing addition apparatus" was invented by Hiroto Kaga (Tokyo), Masumi Kawakami (Tokyo) and Yasufumi Suzuki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A program analyzing apparatus (failure analyzing apparatus) includes an execution path reduction unit that deletes an execution path that is not executed by referring to information related to a branch destination of a conditional branch included in a program, from all execution paths that are all executable execution paths among execution paths that are colu...