ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,071, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Artificial intelligence based application modernization advisory" was invented by Jin Xiao (White Plains, N.Y.), Anup Kalia (White Plains, N.Y.), Raghav Batta (Ossining, N.Y.), Hongtan Sun (Armonk, N.Y.) and Maja Vukovic (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology for applying artificial intelligence to decide when to, and/or when not to, send a consumer of a computer system a communication recommending that the computer system be revised to include a more recent version of at least one of the following: a hardware component (for ex...