US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 8 for "Source code optimization" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,619, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Source code optimization" was invented by Tyler Steele (Edmonton, Canada), Jordan Gillette (North York, Canada), Reid Copeland (Ontario, Canada), Muhammad Suhaib Tahir Saleem (Toronto) and Jacqueline Midroni (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method optimizes source code. A processor set receives a source code in a first version. The processor set compiles the source code in the first version to generate an intermediate representation for the source codes in the first version. The processor set compares the inter...