ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,821, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Automating functional safety scoring for applications" was invented by Sameera Kalgudi (Lansing, Mich.), Pierre-Yves Chibon (Puteaux, France), Khaled Sulayman (Boston), Michael Weng Keong Ho (Grasbrunn, Germany) and Ryan Smith (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides new and innovative systems and methods for automating functional safety scoring in applications. An example method includes a computing device having a processor detecting a requirement to generate a functional safety score for at least a portion of a program. The ...