ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,032, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Partial evaluation of single execution methods" was invented by Christian Wimmer (Belmont, Calif.), Liviu Codrut Stancu (Zurich) and Vojin Jovanovic (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods implement partial evaluation of single execution methods. A native image is built from a build image compiled from source code. At image build time, a single execution method of the build image is executed to update an image heap of the native image. The single execution method is executed with a single execution for a native instance. T...