ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,419, issued on Sept. 9.

"System and method for evaluating computer program halts" was invented by Howard Christopher Brakefield (Mountain Brook, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes initiating a first graph clock to track events occurring in a program executing on a computer device. The first graph clock includes a circular counter with a tick location representing a 24-hour period and one or more colored waveforms encircling the circular counter. The method includes detecting a first event occurring in a program executing on a computer device, The method includes determining a first tick location on the first graph...