ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,870, issued on July 8, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for upgrading a technology stack in a computing infrastructure" was invented by Vasuki Anand (Chennai, India) and Kalyanasundaram Ramanathan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor performs a first scan of an environment associated with a software application and determines a first set of parameters indicative of characteristics of the environment. The processor performs a second scan of the component layers of the application and determines a second set of parameters indicative of characteristics of a software code as...