ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,408, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Identification and removal of redundant interfaces" was invented by Janos Bonic (Vienna), Sanja Bonic (Vienna) and Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interface in a first unit of software instructions is identified, the interface being configured to be invoked by an invoking unit of software instructions and when invoked, to invoke a function in a second unit of software instructions. A plurality of other units of software instructions are analyzed to identify a set of units of software instructions that are configured to invoke th...