ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,057, issued on March 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Computing environment software application testing" was invented by Fernando Luiz Koch (Greenwich, Conn.), Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto (Sao Paulo) and David Jason Hunt (Kirkwood, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: testing a software application having instances that run on (a) a test computing environment and (b) a target computing environment, wherein each of the test computing environment and the ta...