ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,987, issued on June 23, was assigned to CONNECTFREE Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Software development device and software development program" was invented by Kristopher Andrew Tate (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an environment in which various constraints can be freely set for a program executed by an edge device or the like. A software development device for generating an object code from a source code includes: an evaluation means for extracting constraints set in a source code and evaluating whether or not the source code conforms to the constraints within an application range of the extracted restrictio...