ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,071, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Porting at least one programming language package to a target operating system platform" was invented by William Gerald O'Farrell (Markham, Canada), Fateh Hyder (Ottawa), Dustin Donald Ward (Lethbridge, Canada) and Mackenzie David Malainey (St. Albert, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described with regard to programming language adaptation to a target operating system platform. An associated method includes receiving at least one build parsing error consequent to compiling at least one current programming language pac...