ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,155, issued on May 27, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Rule engine for functional safety certification" was invented by Rachel Elizabeth Sibley (Raleigh, N.C.) and Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Functions associated with functional safety certification of a software package can be identified using a rule engine. For example, a computing system can identify the functions in a codebase of the software package by executing the rule engine that is configured to identify the functions using a rule set. In response to identifying the functions, the computing system can tag the functions with...