US Patent Issued to Endor Labs on Aug. 11 for "Determining an impact of changes to third-party software components on downstream users" (Dutch, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,161, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Endor Labs Inc (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Determining an impact of changes to third-party software components on downstream users" was invented by Henrik Plate (Valbonne, France), Dimitrios Styliadis (San Jose, Calif.), Georgios Gousios (Delft, Netherlands), Joseph Hejderup (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Philip Hamer (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some cases, a server determines that project code calls a component in a third-party library that has been updated. The server compares a first type hierarchy of the component with a second type hierarchy of the updated component, a first ca...