ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,069, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Code concierge model (CCM) for predicting runtime errors of source code" was invented by Zachary A. Silverstein (Georgetown, Texas), Hernan A. Cunico (Holly Springs, N.C.), Jonathan D. Dunne (Dungarvan, Ireland) and Saswati Dana (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to software development environments and, more particularly, to predicting runtime errors in software development environments. For example, a computer-implemented method includes: clustering similar regions of source...