ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,166, issued on May 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Enhanced exception handling for debugging" was invented by Lei Wang (Beijing), Xiao Ling Chen (Beijing), Zheng Lei An (Beijing), Yan Huang (Beijing) and Dong Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product for improving debugging efficiency through fallibility skip functionality are provided. The method initiates a fallibility skip mode within a programming environment. The method identifies a code module to be translated from a first coding language to a second coding language. The code module incl...