US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 12 for "Multiple granularity data flow analysis in mainframe applications" (Indian, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,728, issued on May 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multiple granularity data flow analysis in mainframe applications" was invented by Atul Kumar (Bangalore, India), Vitobha Munigala (Secunderabad, India), Alex Mathai (Mumbai, India), Amith Singhee (Bangalore, India), Rahamim Katan (Modiin, Israel) and Keerthi Narayan Raghunath (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data flow analysis is provided. A program level data flow analysis is performed for each respective data flow path in a set of control flow chains corresponding to each respective program called by a particular job step i...