ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,140, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Problem fix verification generation" was invented by Stephanie Carys Shum (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) and Patrick John Clas (Pine Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for generating problem fix verification procedures for varying corrections to defects are described. An example method includes obtaining problem analysis data associated with a defect of a first computing system. A first representational vector corresponding to the problem analysis data is generated. Second representational vectors corresponding to...