ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,117, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Signature extraction and verification per-file for debugging" was invented by Ryan Goldberg (Toronto) and Frank Eigler (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing logic may send an HTTP request for a file to an HTTP server over a computer network. Processing logic may receive, from the HTTP server, a signature that is associated with the file, and the file. The file may include the source code that is associated with the file, executable code that corresponds to the source code, and debug data associated with the source code and the executable code. Process...