ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,849, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Infrastructure refactoring via fuzzy upside down reinforcement learning" was invented by Madhu Sudhanan Krishnamoorthy (Tamil Nadu, India), Sreeram Raghavan (Tamil Nadu, India) and Rajarajan Pandiyan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for refactoring infrastructure. The methods may include (a) defining parameters of an application landscape. The methods may include (b) stress-testing an application in a simulated environment based on: the parameters; and a simulated input to the application. The methods may include (c) ...