ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,095, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Program structure analyzer and method for analyzing program structure" was invented by Kengo Kido (Ichikawa, Japan) and Nguyen Thuy Quynh Nhu (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A program structure analyzer configured to analyze the structure of a program for causing a computer to execute a predetermined process identifies a source of an action corresponding to a starting pin associated with a reference port selected from one or more output ports set for a target block; repeats identification of a source with the identified source being set as...