ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,344, issued on March 18, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for automated refactoring of mainframe based batch systems to cloud native environment" was invented by Yogananda Ravindranath (Chennai, India), Tamildurai Mehalingam (Chennai, India), Karthick Periyasamy (Chennai, India), Rama Rangarajan (Chennai, India) and Mounica Thamatam Reddy (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Mainframe batch system have various type of source components and each component has its own purpose and functionality within the environment. Existing refactoring are still dependent on manual skills...