ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,734, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Deduplication of computer programs using similarity measures and artificial intelligence" was invented by Haiyang Xu (Shanghai), Yuna Hou (Shanghai), Fangling Liu (Shanghai), Xiang Fan (Shanghai), Xia Yu (Shanghai), Wenle Zhao (Shanghai), Jia Wang (Shanghai) and You Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments for deduplication of APIs using similarity measures and artificial intelligence are described herein. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to compare a first computing program to a second computing program, wherein each computing pr...