US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Automatic generation of a coexistence layer using robotic process automation for application modernization" (Romanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,488, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automatic generation of a coexistence layer using robotic process automation for application modernization" was invented by Corneliu Nicolae Barbulescu (Otopeni, Romania) and Ciprian Constantinescu (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Updating calls or operations in a database management system includes mapping, by a computer processor, application programming interface (API) types associated with a legacy server and a new server. The legacy server recognizes request signatures of a first API type and the new server recognizes...