ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,730, issued on June 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optimizing computer-based compilation" was invented by Dickson Wui Fai Chau (Markham, Canada), Nicole Khoun (Whitby, Canada), Muiez Ahmed (North York, Canada) and Ahsan Saghir (Cambridge, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to improve computer-based compilation, embodiments of the present invention determine if there is an entry in a metadata file for a compilation command request. Further, in response to determining there is no entry in the metadata file, embodiments execute a first process, wherein the first process compris...