ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,287, issued on June 17, was assigned to SOFTWARE GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Systems and/or methods for simplifying packaging and installation of software in mainframe computer systems" was invented by Arunkumaar Ramachandran (Chennai, India) and Reinhard Springer (Fraenkisch-Crumbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain example embodiments relate to techniques for installing and/or updating an application instance on a target mainframe. Packaged code, received by the target mainframe from a source mainframe in a deployment package, is executable on the target mainframe. The deployment package also includes a memory dump o...