ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,112, issued on June 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Compliance adaption plans and software component matchmaking" was invented by Juliana Medeiros Destro (Indaiatuba, Brazil), Flavio Gilberto De Souza (Estiva Gerbi, Brazil), Diego Aparecido Wolfshorndl (Piracicaba, Brazil) and Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto (Sao Paulo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the invention include correlating a context of a written data privacy requirement with a first code segment of a source code of a target computer system. A selection of a first candidate code segment is received to replace the first code s...