ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,614, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Intelligent attribute value substitution in infrastructure as code (IAC) generation" was invented by Malarvizhi Kandasamy (Bangalore, India), Akshay Thyagaraja Kotagal (Bangalore, India), Srinivasan Nanduri (Bangalore, India), Ankita Dutta (Kolkata, India), Abhineet Karn (Surat, India) and Pavan Kumar Reddy Yannam (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment performs, by an attribute value substitution engine, key-value extraction on infrastructure as code. The embodiment assigns, by the attribute value substitution engine...