US Patent Issued to Architecture Technology on Sept. 1 for "Refactoring legacy software using syntax trees representing source code" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,606, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Architecture Technology Corp. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Refactoring legacy software using syntax trees representing source code" was invented by Colleen Kimball (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Judson Powers (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products for modernizing and optimizing legacy software. A computing device may perform an automated runtime performance profiling process. The performance profiler may automatically profile the legacy software at runtime, monitor the memory usage and module activities of the legacy software...