US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Predicting work effort for porting software projects across disparate platforms" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,703, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Predicting work effort for porting software projects across disparate platforms" was invented by Jiang Yi Liu (Beijing), Wen Ji Huang (Beijing), Yong Qing Xu (Beijing) and Sheng Shuang Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Predicting porting work effort is provided. A total porting work effort to port a software project from a source platform to a disparate target platform is predicted using a first porting work effort, a second porting work effort, and a third porting work effort. The software project is ported from the source platf...