ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,931, issued on March 18, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Determining an improved technology environment for a software application" was invented by Chirag Himatlal Rathod (Mumbai, India), Kalpesh Fatehchand Jain (Thane, India), Ramesh Lakshmi Narayanan (Chennai, India), Satish Kumar Kommineni (Hyderabad, India), Venkata Apparao Alla (Hyderabad, India) and Sasidhar Purushothaman (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is configured to obtain information relating to a current application environment and a plurality of model application environments of a software application. The system runs ...