ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,229, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Stack frame generation for source code enclosed by macros" was invented by Xiao Ling Chen (Beijing), Qi Ye (Shanghai), Heng Wang (Beijing), Qi Li (Beijing) and Navya Ramanjulu (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for debugging computer instructions is provided. The method comprises using a number processors to receive a computer program, including a source code and generate a number of information records associated with a number of computer instructions in the source code, wherein at least one of the com...