ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,634, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Harness Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for tracing and monitoring functions in binary codes" was invented by Santosh Sahu (Karnataka, India), Puneet Agarwal (Bangalore, India) and Sanjay Nagraj (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tracing and monitoring functions in binary codes is disclosed. The method includes receiving a probe corresponding to a target function, a target binary code, and a base source code. The method includes attaching the received probe in the target binary code based on presence of a debug symbol table associated with the target binary cod...