ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,877, issued on July 8, was assigned to STYRA INC. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Automated asymptotic analysis" was invented by Ashutosh Narkar (San Bruno, Calif.) and Timothy L. Hinrichs (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for identifying runtime complexity of a policy. The method receives, through a user interface (UI), a set of code defining a particular policy. For each variable in the particular policy, the method identifies a first occurrence of the variable in the particular policy to determine a number of values assigned to the variable. Variables determined to be assigned one value ar...