ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,707, issued on July 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Compilation system and method" was invented by Nuno Claudino Pereira Lopes (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispatcher steps through a sequence of operations in a source program, including looping through the loops and/or branching at the branches, and maps each source operation to a respective function call each time encountered. An interceptor intercepts the function calls, converts each into a corresponding trace entry comprising a set of one or more trace operations, and inserts the trace entries one after anoth...