US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Jan. 13 for "Bytecode transformations using virtual artifacts" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,216, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Bytecode transformations using virtual artifacts" was invented by Stuart Wade Douglas (Orange, Australia) and James Roger Perkins (Government Camp, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for transforming bytecodes using virtual artifacts are disclosed. In one aspect, a method is provided that includes receiving a build request to convert source code into a first bytecode. A first virtual artifact may be identified within the source code and it may be determined that a local repository does not store the first virtual artifact. A real artifact that...