ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,525, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Validation of code translation using intermediate representation" was invented by Rangeet Pan (White Plains, N.Y.), Saurabh Sinha (Danbury, Conn.), Rahul Krishna Prasad (White Plains, N.Y.), Julian Timothy Dolby (Bronx, N.Y.), Venkata Nagaraju Pavuluri (New Rochelle, N.Y.) and Maja Vukovic (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a code translation validation platform may convert source code, associated with a source application, to an intermediate representation that supports a source programing language and a targ...