ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,005, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Transforming a Java program using a symbolic description language model" was invented by Paul D. Sandoz (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for transforming Java source code using a symbolic description language are disclosed, including: obtaining a set of Java source code corresponding to a Java program; generating a symbolic description language (SDL) model of the set of Java source code; generating, based on the SDL model, a transformed program including at least one transformation relative to the Java program."

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