ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,450, issued on June 23, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Replacing lambda expressions in a rete network with corresponding code classes" was invented by Luca Molteni (Milan) and Francesco Nigro (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lambda expressions in a Rete network class can be replaced with code classes according to some examples herein. In one particular example, a system can generate a Rete network based on a set of rules. The Rete network can include nodes corresponding to conditions defined in the set of rules. The system can generate a network class based on the Rete network, where the network class is source c...