US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 11 for "Program dependent component amalgamation" (Danish, British, Swiss, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,035, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Program dependent component amalgamation" was invented by Tom Hvitved (Copenhagen, Denmark), Christopher Stephen Frederick Smowton (Oxford, Great Britain), Tamas Vajk (Visp, Switzerland), Arthur Iwan Baars (Valencia, Spain) and Michael Nebel (Vanlose, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments construct a set of build dependencies for a program without access to a full set of build instructions. When multiple clashing name resolutions are identified for a particular dependency, a union of the alternative versions is formed. Inte...