US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 22 for "Workflow impact analysis" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,364, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Workflow impact analysis" was invented by Zhi Li Guan (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Jun Su (Beijing) and Kun Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment monitors a code repository for changes made to source code. The embodiment detects a change made to the source code, and upon detecting the change made to the source code, identifies a potentially impacted workflow node of a workflow based on the change made to the source code. The embodiment identifies an execution tree of the workflow that contains the potentially ...