ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,960, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Generating efforts to facilitate preparation and execution of software migrations" was invented by Paolo Antinori (Novara, Italy) and Marco Rizzi (Vicenza, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can be provided for generating efforts to facilitate preparation and execution of software migrations. For example, the system can monitor software applications to generate metadata for the software applications. The system can also receive time-efforts for historical migrations of the software applications. The system can store the metadata and the time-efforts for...