ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,725, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Artificial intelligence optimized cloud migration" was invented by Hongtan Sun (Armonk, N.Y.), John Rofrano (Mahopac, N.Y.), Maja Vukovic (New York) and Chen Lin (Elmsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach to optimized migration of user assets to the cloud using artificial intelligence is presented. This approach may include user input and artificial intelligence trained with historical knowledge to generate rules. Migration models may be generated from the rules. A user may verify the migration models were successful. A task p...