ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,205, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Externally-initiated runtime type extension" was invented by Aaron Reid Robinson (Seattle) and Vit Karas (Svojetice, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Externally-initiated extension of a type that is managed by a runtime environment. As an example, third-party code that is not a runtime component may itself cause a type to be extended by causing a subject interface to be supplied to the type while also providing an implementation for that interface. The extension occurs by identifying a subject interface to supply to a type tha...