US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 30 for "Eye-catcher injection into library transformation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,039, issued on June 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Eye-catcher injection into library transformation" was invented by Frederik Johannes Hartmann (Sindelfingen, Germany) and Ulrich Weigand (Tuebingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for transforming a library from a source operating system to a target operating system is disclosed. Thereby, the source OS comprises a source ABI; the target OS comprises a target application ABI; the target ABI is different from the source application binary interface, wherein the library is implemented by a source object fi...