ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,425, issued on May 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Removing redundant code" was invented by Michihiro Horie (Ageo, Japan) and Kazunori Ogata (Soka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments determine that a compiler option is not provided to enable an assertion for a reachable class in a target application, determine that there is no application program interface (API) being used to enable the assertion found in a reachable method in the reachable class, determine that there is no assertion being executed before an initialization of the reachable class, and remove assertion related co...