US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 7 for "Disabling a processor facility on a new processor generation without breaking binary compatibility" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,818, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Disabling a processor facility on a new processor generation without breaking binary compatibility" was invented by Brian Frank Veale (Cedar Park, Texas), Arnold Flores (Round Rock, Texas), Andre Laurent Albot (Austin, Texas) and Juan M. Casas Jr. (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, computer program product, and computer system are provided. A first migration of a running logical partition (LPAR) is performed from a first-generation computer to a second-generation computer. Availability of a facility differs between the ...