ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,388, issued on July 7, was assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. (New York).

"Bidirectional visual indexing system and method for codebase impact analysis" was invented by Albert Hugh Tong (New York), Melanie Lislie Hsu (Holmdel, N.J.), Eric Matthew Burger (Troy, N.Y.), Michael Tamburro (Provincetown, Mass.), Daniel Weigh (Rineyville, Ky.), Randy Douglas Furman (Calgary, Canada) and Pavel Maslov (North Bergen, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for implementing bidirectional visual indexing of a codebase are disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention receives a user input comprising at least one of...