ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,310, issued on July 21, was assigned to Endor Labs Inc (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Stitching partial call graphs to create a complete call graph to determine when to upgrade to a newer version" was invented by Joseph Hejderup (Palo Alto, Calif.), Philip Hamer (Palo Alto, Calif.), Georgios Apostolopoulos (San Jose, Calif.) and Dimitrios Styliadis (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a package in a software project is selected and dependencies in the selected package are determined. A partial call graph for individual dependencies is created and stored in a cache to create partial call graphs that are sti...