ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,220, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. (New York).

"Method and system for understanding and translating legacy code" was invented by Alberto Pozanco (Madrid), Petr Babkin (San Francisco), Daniel Borrajo (Pozuelo de Alarcon, Spain) and Manuela Veloso (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for automatically understanding legacy code that is written in an old programming language in order to facilitate an ability to translate the legacy code into a modern programming language are provided. The method includes: receiving a set of legacy code that is written in an old programming language; r...