ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,891, issued on May 13, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Machine-based source code assessment" was invented by Alexander Hoole (Vancouver, Canada), James Wesley Rabon (Montgomery, Ala.) and Peter Thomas Blay (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for configuring a testing device to only perform relevant tests, wherein the test results are more meaningful (e.g., few false-positives) and relevant to the application. Source code is analyzed to determine elements that indicate a particular environment for the source code's corresponding machine code. When the source cod...