ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,808, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Risk dependency evaluation of a source code for task automation" was invented by Yuji Watanabe (Chuouku, Japan), Ruriko Kudo (Saitama, Japan) and Hirokuni Kitahara (Sumida-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A risk dependency platform may obtain a source code for task automation. The risk dependency platform may analyze the source code to determine one or more dependencies associated with the source code. The one or more dependencies may identify referenced source code that are included in the source code by reference. The risk depende...