ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,018, issued on July 21, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multipathing for source code execution" was invented by Andrew C. M. Hicks (Highland, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and methods for generating multiple paths of execution during the compilation process are provided. One or more portions of a software-based task to be executed are identified. A plurality of segments of compiled code for executing the identified one or more portions of the software-based task are generated. Errors during execution of a first segment of compiled code from the plurality of segments of compiled ...