ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,210, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Optimized recompilation using hardware tracing" was invented by Ilknur Cansu Kaynak Kocberber (Zurich), Mario Wolczko (San Carlos, Calif.) and Thomas Wuerthinger (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracing controller may utilize a binary execution trace mechanism to trace execution of compiled application machine code. The tracing controller may initiate hardware tracing to gather control-flow hardware traces of a method executing on a processor configured to generate hardware tracing information. The controller may generate a profile b...