US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 7 for "Diffing prior executions of an executable program" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,631, issued on April 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Diffing prior executions of an executable program" was invented by Jordi Mola (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Diffing prior executions of an executable program. A computer system assigns a weighting to each entity type in a first ordered set of a first plurality of entities and a second ordered set of a second plurality of entities, including assigning different weightings to different entity types. The computer system calculates an edit distance between the first and second ordered sets based on calculating a minimal cost pa...