ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,722, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Evaluating and remediating source code variability" was invented by Zachary A. Silverstein (Georgetown, Texas), Mary Diane Swift (Rochester, N.Y.) and Jonathan D. Dunne (Dungarvan, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods for providing source code with predictable performance characteristics are provided. Aspects include performing a static analysis on the source code to identify one or more functions of the source code and a type associated with each of the one or more functions and performing a dynamic analysis on...