ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,196, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Shared library loading using predefined loading policy" was invented by Heng Wang (Changping District, China), Xiao Ling Chen (Changping District, China), Xin Peng Liu (Austin, Texas), Tao Guan (Toronto) and Wei Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented process is disclosed. An application is loaded into a local address space. A request by the application to load a target shared library is intercepted by an interceptor. Using the interceptor and based upon the request being intercepted, a shared library correlation...