ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,985, issued on June 23, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Fingerprint inference of software artifacts" was invented by Alexander Jordan (Brisbane, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fingerprint inference of software artifacts includes receiving a request including classes, generating request fingerprints from the classes, and querying at least one index with the request fingerprints to identify a matching set of artifact versions. Fingerprint inference further includes obtaining, for each matching artifact version in the matching set of artifact versions, a count of the request fingerprints m...