G06F 8/4435
Detection or removal of dead or redundant code
Official title: {Detection or removal of dead or redundant code}
G06F8/4435 (Detection or removal of dead or redundant code) appears on 162 US grants and 161 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 162
- Published applications
- 161
- Assignees
- 79
- Inventors
- 390
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 10 | 9 |
| 2024 | 16 | 13 |
| 2025 | 8 | 10 |
| 2026 | 4 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- System and method for intelligent automatic resolution of inactive computer code in a multi cloud environment15 Sep 2026US 12,737,163 B2Bank of America Corporation
- Method and apparatus for determining binary function entry25 Aug 2026US 12,717,564 B2Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Software library usage optimization4 Aug 2026US 12,699,556 B2The Toronto-Dominion Bank
- Sampling device and sampling method3 Mar 2026US 12,566,598 B2Inter-University Research Institute Corporation Research Organization of Information and Systems
- Code generation based on processor usage23 Sep 2025US 12,423,076 B1NVIDIA Corporation
- Identifying Coding Patterns via a Control Flow Graph8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310428 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Automatic code refactor with abstract syntax tree and generative ai30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219880 A1Intuit Inc.
- Context-aware inlining based on hybrid profiling25 Jun 2026US 2026/0178295 A1Oracle International Corporation
- Code generation based on processor usage12 Mar 2026US 2026/0072661 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Translating computer code using augmented program analysis26 Feb 2026US 2026/0056723 A1International Business Machines Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Filtering of transactional memory operations using associative tables109US 7,590,806 B2Microsoft Corporation · 2009
- Link time optimization with translation to intermediate program and following optimization techniques including program analysis code motion live variable set generation order analysis, dead code elimination and load invariant analysis92US 5,966,539 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1999
- Link time optimization via dead code elimination, code motion, code partitioning, code grouping, loop analysis with code motion, loop invariant analysis and active variable to register analysis67US 5,999,737 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1999
- Partial dead code elimination optimizations for program code conversion52US 7,543,284 B2Transitive Limited · 2009
- Just in time GPU executed program cross compilation46US 10,102,015 B1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC · 2018