US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 13 for "Estimating executed paths from operator execution counts" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,251, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Estimating executed paths from operator execution counts" was invented by Toshiaki Yasue (Sagamihara, Japan), Kohichi Ono (Setagaya-ku, Japan), Nobuhiro Hosokawa (Yokohama, Japan) and Hiroaki Nakamura (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for identifying execution paths in computer application logic. A control flow graph is generated for the computer application logic based on source code and an execution log. Paths of the control flow graph are identified that have operators matching operators having execu...