ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,691, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Modernizing application components to reduce energy consumption" was invented by Fan Jing Meng (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Cheng Fang Wang (Beijing) and Jun Su (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for application modernization is provided. The present invention may include receiving operation data related to an application. The present invention may include identifying a plurality of entities based on the operation data related to the application. The present invention may ...