US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 11 for "Interval testing with reduced complexity" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,527, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Interval testing with reduced complexity" was invented by Mathias Soeken (Montreux, Switzerland) and Thomas Haener (Zug, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for compiling executable code for execution on a computer includes: (a) receiving source code instructing the computer to execute an interval test to determine whether an interval defined by integers a and b encloses an integer x; (b) decomposing the interval test into a first comparison between the integer a and the integer x and a second comparison between the integer b...