US Patent Issued to SMARTSHIFT TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for code clustering analysis and transformation" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,908, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SMARTSHIFT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for code clustering analysis and transformation" was invented by Albrecht Gass (Fullerton, Calif.), Stefan Hetges (Mannheim, Germany), Nikolaos Faradouris (Mannheim, Germany) and Oliver Flach (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application is directed towards systems and methods for cluster-based code analysis and transformation. Cluster-based analysis may group code objects based on their similarity across functional areas, such as where a code object is cloned in multiple areas (e.g. sort functi...