Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for Graph-Traversal Causal Debt Propagation Method For Quantifying Technical Debt In Software Repositories

MUMBAI, India, Oct. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641123778 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology on October 15, 2026, for Graph-Traversal Causal Debt Propagation Method For Quantifying Technical Debt In Software Repositories.

Inventors include Venketesh Palanisamy; Minmini K; and Tarunica S.

The application for the patent was published on October 23, 2026, under issue no. 43/2026.

Abstract: ABSTRACT GRAPH-TRAVERSAL CAUSAL DEBT PROPAGATION METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING TECHNICAL DEBT IN SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES A computer-implemented method (200) for quantifying technical debt in a software repository includes parsing source files to extract code entities and relationships (202), and constructing a ...