US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 2 for "Program code update recommendation based on a heatmap" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,809, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Program code update recommendation based on a heatmap" was invented by Bo Chen Zhu (Xi'an, China), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Chu Yun Tong (Beijing), Ai Ping Feng (Beijing), Xinzhe Wang (Beijing) and Cheng Fang Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for recommending an application of a software code update. The approach receives components of an executable program. The approach scans the components to divide the executable program into units. The approach creates a logical layer of entry lists, based on the units, for instant...