ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,998, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Dynamic importation of external dependency information to support autocompletion in an interactive development environment" was invented by Paolo Antinori (Milan) and Eric P. Wittmann (Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is determined that an interpretable application including a plurality of files utilizes a runtime loaded external dependency that includes a plurality of functions. The runtime loaded external dependency includes executable software instructions that are loaded into the interpretable application during a runtime of the interpretable ...