ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,195, issued on May 26, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for testing a computer program" was invented by Christopher Huth (Heilbronn, Germany) and Max Camillo Eisele (Ludwigsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for testing a computer program. The method includes: executing the computer program until a memory allocation command is activated for allocating a memory region; expanding the memory region by a protection zone having at least one memory location; allocating the expanded memory region; setting a watchpoint on each of one or more memory locations of the protection zone; continuing ...