ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,045, issued on April 29, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Methods and systems for self-optimizing library functions" was invented by Sandeep Verma (Gurugram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a machine learning engine for increasing efficiency of an application written in a computer code, the code associated with a programing library that includes a library function, the function being associated with a default algorithm and a plurality of alternate algorithms. The machine learning engine may be configured to scan the code to identify occurrences of the library function; create altered ap...