ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,536, issued on April 7, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Dependency analysis through class file manipulation" was invented by Stuart Wade Douglas (Canberra, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device may receive a request for dependency information indicative of one or more class files included in an archive file. The processing device may fetch the archive file from an upstream source, where the archive file may be associated with the dependency information indicative of the one or more class files. The processing device may apply a transformation to the archive file to indicate provenance information...