ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,741, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Contrastive review of software application modifications" was invented by Siddharth K. Saraya (Raniganj, India) and Mukundan Sundararajan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contrastive review of a computer software application modification includes retrieving an amelioration score for a computer software application, the amelioration score based on a predetermined set of operational attributes associated with functionalities of the computer software application. The functionalities that are affected by the modification of the ...