ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,673, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Workload recording and replication to facilitate security testing" was invented by Michael Page Kasper (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Andrew C. M. Hicks (Highland, N.Y.), Bryan Childs (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Diane Marie Stamboni (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Joshua David Steen (Fishkill, N.Y.) and Christopher V DeRobertis (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device accesses a current workload. The computing device saves the current workload into a computer workload accessible format, the computer workload accessible format usa...