US Patent Issued to Intel on May 27 for "Methods and apparatus for automatic detection of software bugs" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,690, issued on May 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for automatic detection of software bugs" was invented by Fangke Ye (Atlanta), Justin Gottschlich (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shengtian Zhou (Palo Alto, Calif.), Roshni Iyer (Fremont, Calif.) and Jesmin Jahan Tithi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for automatic detection of software bugs are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a comparator to compare reference code to input code to detect a source code error in the input code; a graph generator to generate a graphical representation of the r...