ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,727, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Migration from centralized version control system to a distributed version control system" was invented by Dennis Behm (Langen, Germany), Mathieu Dalbin (Viarmes, France), Nicolas Dangeville (Paris) and Rahamim Katan (Modiin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computer system for migration from a centralized version control system to a distributed version control system. The method includes defining a set of applications of an installation that is to be migrated from a centralized version control sys...