ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,247, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Program generation apparatus, program generation method and program" was invented by Toshiyuki Kurabayashi (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Kirinuki (Tokyo) and Yu Yoshimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The possibility of a desired program being automatically generated is increased by a program generation device including: a generation unit configured to generate a first program that satisfies at least one pair of an input value and an output value; and a determination unit configured to randomly generate an input value that satisfies a constraint regard...