US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Nov. 25 for "Regular expression decomposition and evaluation" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,721, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Regular expression decomposition and evaluation" was invented by Shaleen Deep (Madison, Wis.), Ling Zhang (Madison, Wis.), Avrilia Floratou (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anja Gruenheid (Zurich), Jignesh M. Patel (Madison, Wis.) and Yiwen Zhu (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Regular expression ("regex") decomposition and evaluation is disclosed. In an aspect of the disclosure, a literal component and a pattern component in a regex are determined. A plurality of evaluation processes is determined based on the regex, including a first eva...