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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2023
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Davide Italiano, San Francisco, CA (US);
Damian Malarczyk, Hasselt, BE;
Frederic Riss, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael H. Rawdon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mohamadou A. Abdoulaye, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nick Kledzik, Cupertino, CA (US);
Peter Cooper, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/54 (2018.01); G06F 8/41 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/54 (2013.01); G06F 8/425 (2013.01); G06F 8/427 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using mergeable libraries. One of the methods includes during a build of an executable target, generating the executable target by merging the executable target with data for a library that was previously linked with the executable target.