US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 24 for "Function code extraction" (Canadian, Japanese, American, Israeli, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,134, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Function code extraction" was invented by Shivali Agarwal (Ghaziabad, India), Rahamim Katan (Modiin, Israel), Hiroaki Nakamura (Yokohama, Japan), Ashwin Dhinesh Kumar (Ossining, N.Y.), Andrew Mak (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Ching-Hao Lee (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method extracts code for a service. Key statements are identified for the service in a source code for a region of interest in an application in response to a program selection selecting a program in the region of interest. Importance scores are...