ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,524, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"System and method to evaluate code importance via graph centralities" was invented by Ran Zmigrod (Cambridge, Great Britain), Salwa Husam Alamir (Bournemouth, Great Britain) and Sameena Shah (Scarsdale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and processes, apparatuses/systems, and media for systemically and dynamically evaluating code importance via graph centralities are disclosed. A processor splits a code base into a configurable level of granularity each defining as a component of the code base. Each component includes its associated depend...