ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,907, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).
"Method and system for matching source code and binary code" was invented by Sanket Achal Sinha (Pune, India), Venkata Rajan Mindigal Alasingara Bhattachar (Bangalore, India), Vaibhav Harihar Agasti (Pune, India), Kumar Mansukhlal Vidhani (Pune, India) and Sachin Premsukh Lodha (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "State of the art code matching approaches have the disadvantage that they rely on the line numbers provided by source code and binary parsers to establish mapping and do not work since changes introduced by compiler may be much mo...